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Commit cd670599 authored by H. Peter Anvin's avatar H. Peter Anvin
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x86, setup: guard against pre-ACPI 3 e820 code not updating %ecx



Impact: BIOS bug safety

For pre-ACPI 3 BIOSes, pre-initialize the end of the e820 buffer just
in case the BIOS returns an unchanged %ecx but without actually
touching the ACPI 3 extended flags field.

Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
parent c549e71d
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