[Lguest] lguest: unhandled trap

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Oct 21 06:01:25 EST 2008


Ian Campbell wrote:
> 
> Wasn't there some concern about BIOSes which don't correctly reserve
> their DMI tables? Or don't even have e820 maps? H. Peter once said:
> 
>> It's pretty standard for 0xf0000...0x100000 to be marked RESERVED in
>> E820 on real hardware (including the system I'm typing on right now.)
>> It is so marked to indicate that hardware cannot be mapped into that
>> space.  However, you can't rely on this fact -- heck, you can't rely on
>> E820 even existing on a real machine.  I have specimens of real-life
>> machines that go both ways.
> 

Not only that, but the ACPI spec states explicitly that the ISA magic 
areas should be handled without relying on E820.

	-hpa



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