Re: EBDA Question

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Sat Feb 26 2005 - 22:44:27 EST


Bukie Mabayoje wrote:

In general, dropping the EBDA below 0x9a000 is probably a
bad idea. Recent Linux kernels and boot loaders should handle it,
though. Keep in mind that you might find yourself in serious trouble
if you then have, for example, a PXE stack layered on top of your SCSI
BIOS.

There are test software used in manufacturing line that needs this DOS memory.


For that purpose, you can probably get away with a lot more than that.

-hpa
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