[SeaBIOS] [PATCH 2/2] Allow allocation of SMBIOS table in f-segment if it is small.

Bjørn Mork bjorn at mork.no
Thu Aug 4 08:51:07 CEST 2011


"Kevin O'Connor" <kevin at koconnor.net> writes:

> If the SMBIOS is small (less than 600 bytes) allow it to be allocated
> in the f-segment.  This works around a bug in JunOS - it crashes on
> SMBIOS tables located in high memory.

Thanks.  Just for information:  I've verified that JUNOS boots fine with
this patch as long as there are 8 or fewer CPUs. Which isn't really
limiting anything at all, as they currently only support 1 or 2 cores
anyway.

Thanks again



Bjørn



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