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SubjectRe: [RFC] [PATCH] Allow empty e820 map if EFI map will be provided later.
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 9:14 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
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> 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.

Bill
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