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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] x86 boot: only pick up additional EFI memmap if add_efi_memmap flag

* Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> wrote:

> From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
>
> Applies on top of the previous patch:
> x86 boot: add code to add BIOS provided EFI memory entries to kernel
>
> Instead of always adding EFI memory map entries (if present) to the
> memory map after initially finding either E820 BIOS memory map entries
> and/or kernel command line memmap entries, -instead- only add such
> additional EFI memory map entries if the kernel boot option:
>
> add_efi_memmap
>
> is specified.
>
> Requiring this 'add_efi_memmap' option is backward compatible with
> kernels that didn't load such additional EFI memory map entries in the
> first place, and it doesn't override a configuration that tries to
> replace all E820 or EFI BIOS memory map entries with ones given
> entirely on the kernel command line.

applied to tip/x86/setup-memory - thanks Paul.

Ingo


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