[Lguest] lguest: unhandled trap

Jeremy Fitzhardinge jeremy at goop.org
Mon Oct 20 18:43:53 EST 2008


Ingo Molnar wrote:
> i think Xen can withstand DMI scanning just fine.
>
> without having seen any background, my general feeling is that lguest 
> should either do what Xen does and reserve the classic BIOS ranges that 
> we probe - or we should make DMI scanning more robust by making sure 
> real RAM ranges are never probed. (only ranges that the BIOS itself 
> marks as reserved in the e820 map) 

We considered doing that, but decided that there was so many other 
pieces of code around the place that assume that the ISA area is 
special, that just reserving it was the best course of action.

    J



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