[ipxe-devel] [romprefix] Regression within AMI BIOS

Michael Brown mbrown at fensystems.co.uk
Mon Jul 23 21:42:51 UTC 2012


On Monday 23 Jul 2012 21:43:22 Anton D. Kachalov wrote:
> I'll check it tomorrow with almost 64k image and bigger than that.
> 
> BTW, is it fine to have allocated block for SOURCE_IMAGE but don't have for
> DESTINATION as a result of PMM Find calls (PMM-Z8NR-D12.png)? Before
> recent fixes I have 0xFFFFFFFF instead of zeroes on KPGME-D16
> (PMM-KGPME-D16.png).

Yes; iPXE should still work if either one of the allocations fails.  There is 
a very small chance that the PMM-allocated image_source block will overlap 
with the default decompress_to block, in which case bad things would happen.

Michael



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