Re: [PATCH 23/25] [PATCH] paravirt hooks for arch initialization

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On 8/9/07, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > What's the EBDA actually used for?  The only place which seems to use
> > ebda_addr is in the e820 code to avoid that area as RAM.
>
> It belongs to the firmware.

Wouldn't it be better, then, to just skip this step unconditionally if
we are running a paravirtualized guest? What do we from doing it?

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