[LinuxBIOS] RFC Winflashrom Architecture -- Current device driver (testbed)

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Mon Jun 11 20:26:35 CEST 2007


* Jeremy Jackson <jerj at coplanar.net> [070611 19:27]:
> area.  I'm looking for a way to pass that info to the kernel (from
> linuxbios table?) similar to e820, so that can be used as RAM. (keyword:
> legacy removal)

GOOOD idea!

> I'm curious to know what depends on the below 1MB alias, and could they
> be adjusted to use the high BIOS area.  Is the low 1MB alias where the
> standards put $PIR and other tables read from the BIOS by the OS?

PIR and co can be anywhere in the low ram too I think. 

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