Re: Freeing ACPI tables after parsing

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On Tuesday 22 August 2006 22:28, Moore, Robert wrote:
> > Actually FACS table has a global_lock in it (which the BIOS writes
> too),
> > so it is not movable,
> > and as all tables are laid contiguously in physical memory, moving
> some
> > and
> > leaving FACS is not an option.
> 
> This is a very good point. The Global_Lock field of the FACS is not a
> pointer to the global lock, it is the actual memory location of the
> lock. Therefore, the FACS can only be mapped, it cannot be copied.

Ok.  I will fix the e820.h comments then because they're wrong.

-Andi
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