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Re: [PATCH] Fix eisa_mmap evaluation, add memory existence check
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Robert Millan |
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Re: [PATCH] Fix eisa_mmap evaluation, add memory existence check |
Date: |
Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:18:40 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 09:06:16PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote:
> This patch fixes the broken evaluation of the E801 EISA memory map. The
> shift was too much, the high word is already shifted :-) The bug was
> hidden until the E820 memory map evaluation was broken due to the struct
> packing issue fixed in my last patch.
>
> The extra handling of "0x3C00" case is IMO not necessary. Regions are
> merged a few lines later.
>
> During testing, I added a primitive memory to detect such problems
> early. It was difficult to find why grub crashes during module load.
Is this related to Cygwin?
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Robert Millan
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