Re: Kernel writes to RAM it doesn't own on 2.4.24

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Sat Apr 17 2004 - 15:23:33 EST


Followup to: <200404171440.18829.ross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author: Ross Dickson <ross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> This is all most enlightening. If I am understanding correctly then every
> device driver that the author specifies to use a "mem=" command to
> reserve some memory for said drivers use at the upper part of physical
> memory is stuffed by design.
>

Yup.

-hpa
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