Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:39:17 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Confusions with reserve_early, reserve_bootmem, e820, efi, ... on x86_64 |
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Paul Jackson wrote: > > Reserving EBDA with EFI is fine by what little I know. > > But the current code doesn't like it -- if the EFI memmap range is inside > the EBDA range, then the reserve_early() routine panics with: > > "Overlapping early reservations" > > Something needs tweaking here somehow ... and I'm not the one to know what. >
Right of course... in this particular case, one of the reservations is conservative "just in case" and the other is normative, but the code doesn't deal with that since it's potentially flagging a bug.
-hpa
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