> > I'd presume this statement isn't true today, e.g. one of the IBM Netfinity
> > boxes here (3500M20) has the MP tables in the EBDA. Also how come we
> > search the whole EBDA (4k)? Whilst the MP 1.4 spec sheet says search the
> > first kilobyte only.
>
> We used to search the last 4K of RAM in the low 640Kb, it looks like that
> was never changed when we began using the EBDA pointer properly.
I'm not sure anyone has a box with the MP tables that high in the EBDA,
but i can vouch for my 3500M20 having it in the 1st k. So should this be
changed to 0x400 to adhere to the specifications?
Regards,
Zwane Mwaikambo
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