[coreboot] Minimum RAM requirements for coreboot (under Qemu)
Myles Watson
mylesgw at gmail.com
Mon May 18 18:05:29 CEST 2009
> it's not ok to over-run the stack while loading the payload :-)
I guess I had assumed before that there was some kind of check that avoided
that. It seems like there should be one.
> > Shouldn't this cause problems with the way we write mptables? If the
> > mptable is too big this would write it over our stack, then zero it back
> > out. My pending patch corrects this, but I didn't know it was an issue.
>
> page 0 is getting crowded then.
>
> page 0 is used in vm86 for IDT and stack.
>
> It may be time to make a map. I did a map long ago, but changing
> circumstances have rendered it obsolete.
I think that would be good.
Thanks,
Myles
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