You said:
> I'm particularly bothered by his temp fix, which, afaik, should
> have been a nop.
why should it be a no-op? E820 correctly detects the map and one of the
entries has a length of 0 but type 1. I suspect not even Linux can
store serious amounts of data in 0 bytes of memory so it is reasonable to ignore it...
Is it not?
I mean if there was really no e820[7] entry there (physically) but Linux
started to detect it at some point then it would be a real bug but now it
is just a workaround for a particularly strange E820 configuration of
this Compaq box.
Regards,
Tigran.
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