[coreboot] I've turned on paging as a test

[ron minnich]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Jonathan A. Kollasch <jakllsch at kollasch.net
> wrote:

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> Put it this way, any payload that presents a BIOS or CSM is going to need
> to populate the BDA where software expects to find it (at 0x400).
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OK, but ... I've been finding platforms lately which don't have lots of
these tables, including ones which no longer have _MP_. They all count on
ACPI. I'm not yet convinced we need the BDA -- yes, yes, for compliance, I
understand we do; but I wonder how many OSes can survive with it's not
there. So much of the information in there is what we used to call "legacy
crap.". I know that we did not set up BDA for the first six years or so of
this project, in part because I kept trying to avoid inheriting all this
historical gunk.

So I'm curious to see what would happen were it not there. That said, I do
turn off paging before I jump to payload, so it might
be possible to work around this nonsense.

So many little tables. What a mess!

ron
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