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From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To:     Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com>,
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On Tue, Jun 08, 2021 at 05:53:15PM +0000, Michael Kelley wrote:
> I checked with the Windows team.  Peter Anvin's statement from 11
> years ago is true.  On Intel and AMD processors, Windows unconditionally
> reserves the 1st megabyte of memory, minus one page used for real
> mode startup.   This is done to work around BIOS bugs.

Thanks for checking!

I guess us doing the same is probably fine.

Linus, maybe we should at least give it a try and see whether someone
complains and revert, potentially...?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette