On Saturday 27 October 2007 9:09:47 am Matthew Garrett wrote:

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 09:06:22AM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:

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But we really *should* reserve things used by opregions, shouldn't
we?  After all, the whole point of resource reservation is to prevent
conflicts.

Only if you're happy to lose functionality like IDE, sadly.

That's a simplistic answer to a complex problem.  I don't think
we should just ignore the whole problem, cross our fingers, and
hope that firmware stays out of our way.

Bjorn