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avoid Linux 2.2.x memory range check bug.

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2001-03-16 OKUJI Yoshinori <okuji@gnu.org>
From Bodo Rueskamp <br@itchigo.com>:
* stage2/boot.c (load_initrd): Avoid the last 64kb for
Linux 2.2.x bug.
2001-03-03 OKUJI Yoshinori <okuji@gnu.org>
* docs/multiboot.texi (History): Written.

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@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Alessandro Rubini <rubini@gnu.org>
Alexander K. Hudek <alexhudek@home.com>
Andrew Clausen <clausen@gnu.org>
Bernhard Treutwein <Bernhard.Treutwein@Verwaltung.Uni-Muenchen.DE>
Bodo Rueskamp <br@itchigo.com>.
Bradford Hovinen <hovinen@redrose.net>
Brian Brunswick <brian@skarpsey.demon.co.uk>
Bryan Ford <baford@cs.utah.edu>

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docs/grub.8
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.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.23.
.TH GRUB "8" "February 2001" "grub (GNU GRUB 0.5.97)" FSF
.TH GRUB "8" "March 2001" "grub (GNU GRUB 0.5.97)" FSF
.SH NAME
grub \- the grub shell
.SH SYNOPSIS

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moveto = (LINUX_INITRD_MAX_ADDRESS - len) & 0xfffff000;
/* XXX: Linux 2.3.xx has a bug in the memory range check, so avoid
the last page. */
moveto -= 0x1000;
the last page.
XXX: Linux 2.2.xx has a bug in the memory range check, which is
worse than that of Linux 2.3.xx, so avoid the last 64kb. *sigh* */
moveto -= 0x10000;
memmove ((void *) RAW_ADDR (moveto), (void *) cur_addr, len);
printf (" [Linux-initrd @ 0x%x, 0x%x bytes]\n", moveto, len);