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Michael Brown
320b072c7a [pcbios] Support arbitrary splits of the e820 memory map
Allow for an arbitrary number of splits of the system memory map via
INT 15,e820.

Features of the new map-mangling algorithm include:

  Supports random access to e820 map entries.

  Requires only sequential access support from the underlying e820
  map, even if our caller uses random access.

  Empty regions will always be stripped.

  Always terminates with %ebx=0, even if the underlying map terminates
  with CF=1.

  Allows for an arbitrary number of hidden regions, with underlying
  regions split into as many subregions as necessary.

Total size increase to achieve this is 193 bytes.
2008-08-18 07:17:41 +01:00
Michael Brown
89349d7fad Separated out initialisation functions from startup/shutdown functions. 2007-07-03 23:09:56 +01:00
Michael Brown
dca369ddc3 Call hide_etherboot() from startup(), rather than requiring the prefix to
do it.
2007-01-14 00:53:56 +00:00
Michael Brown
aaed3d50a8 Some operating systems get a nasty shock if a region of the E820 map seems
to start on a non-page boundary.  Make life safer by rounding out our
edited regions.
2007-01-13 23:38:33 +00:00
Michael Brown
859da6bd32 Allow external code to update hidden memory regions. 2007-01-12 03:13:04 +00:00