Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:19:03 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/5 v2] x86 boot: various E820 & EFI related fixes - what changed in v2 |
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* Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> wrote:
> The following patches differ from their previous versions, > submitted a week ago, on the evening of Sun, 15 Jun 2008, > in the following ways: > 1) The "x86_64 build reserve_bootmem_generic fix" patch > is dropped, because it is already fixed in linux-next. > Thanks to Yinghai Lu. > 2) The "allow overlapping ebda and efi memmap memory ranges" > patch is reworked. Instead of allowing overlapping early > memory reservations on EFI boots, rather it allows > particular early memory reservations to overlap, if they > have been so marked. Only the EBDA "BIOS reserved" > reservation is so marked for now; only it can overlap. > Thanks to H. Peter Anvin and Huang Ying. > 3) The patches "remap efi systab runtime from phys to virt" > and "virtualize the efi runtime function callback addresses" > are dropped. They were incorrect. I fixed my EFI firmware > to follow the spec instead. Thanks to Huang Ying.
applied to tip/x86/setup-memory, thanks Paul.
( the review feedback from Peter still needs to be addressed before the memmap-from-EFI portion of your changes can be considered for upstream. See http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/24/26. Should be pretty straightforward. )
Ingo
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