Re: [RFC v2 0/2] Early use of boot service memory

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On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 03:18:41PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 11/21/2013 03:07 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > This is a problem we have to solve, but I don't think this is the right 
> > way to solve it. Why do we not just reattempt to perform the allocation 
> > immediately after we've freed the boot services regions?
> > 
> 
> Wouldn't the memory map already have gotten scrambled all to hell by then?

If we couldn't map a 64MB region in low memory earlier then it's likely 
to have been because there was a 64MB or greater boot services region.

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