[syslinux] Limiting memory used by syslinux

[Gene Cumm]

On Jun 2, 2012 11:12 AM, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
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> On 06/01/2012 12:07 PM, jochen.desmet at emc.com wrote:

> > The problem we're having is that syslinux is overwriting some of that
> > memory (specifically, at first glance it looks like the com32 stack). Is
> > there a way to tell syslinux to not use memory above a certain address ?

> There isn't in the stock syslinux, but it wouldn't be hard to do; there
> is actually a hard-coded limit of 0xfff00000 already (in two places, you
> probably need to grep for it.)  The problem with making this
> configurable is that it would have to happen very early on, before a lot
> of the configuration information is available.

Wouldn't this be best done in the ADV or should it be configurable in the
config file?

--Gene