Messages in this thread | | | From | Bill Richardson <> | Date | Wed, 2 Jun 2010 09:24:04 -0700 | Subject | Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Allow empty e820 map if EFI map will be provided later. |
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On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 9:14 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote: > > No! Bloody **** hell no!
Heh. Well, that answers that.
> This was settled in 2007 -- it is the boot loaders duty to provide a memory map. The fact that we allowed a > hack in to let the kernel itself add additional ranges from EFI has proven to be an utter mistake, and this is > yet another example of it.
Ah. With that hint, I've now found some of the original discussion. Sorry I missed it before. Having dealt with EFI for some weeks now, I can't say I find your reaction overstated.
Thanks for the quick response.
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