Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:11:01 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86 boot: only pick up additional EFI memmap if add_efi_memmap flag |
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* 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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