/* * Note: at least one BIOS is known which assumes that the * buffer pointed to by one e820 call is the same one as * the previous call, and only changes modified fields. Therefore, * we use a temporary buffer and copy the results entry by entry. * * This routine deliberately does not try to account for * ACPI 3+ extended attributes. This is because there are * BIOSes in the field which report zero for the valid bit for * all ranges, and we don't currently make any use of the * other attribute bits. Revisit this if we see the extended * attribute bits deployed in a meaningful way in the future.
*/
do {
intcall(0x15, &ireg, &oreg);
ireg.ebx = oreg.ebx; /* for next iteration... */
/* BIOSes which terminate the chain with CF = 1 as opposed to %ebx = 0 don't always report the SMAP signature on
the final, failing, probe. */ if (oreg.eflags & X86_EFLAGS_CF) break;
/* Some BIOSes stop returning SMAP in the middle of the search loop. We don't know exactly how the BIOS screwed up the map at that point, we might have a partial map, the full map, or complete garbage, so
just return failure. */ if (oreg.eax != SMAP) {
count = 0; break;
}
/* Do we really need to do this? */ if (oreg.cx || oreg.dx) {
oreg.ax = oreg.cx;
oreg.bx = oreg.dx;
}
if (oreg.ax > 15*1024) { return; /* Bogus! */
} elseif (oreg.ax == 15*1024) {
boot_params.alt_mem_k = (oreg.bx << 6) + oreg.ax;
} else { /* * This ignores memory above 16MB if we have a memory * hole there. If someone actually finds a machine * with a memory hole at 16MB and no support for * 0E820h they should probably generate a fake e820 * map.
*/
boot_params.alt_mem_k = oreg.ax;
}
}
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