Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 08 Jun 2011 14:31:38 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.39.1 immediately reboots/resets on EFI system |
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On 06/08/2011 02:28 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > E820 limits us to 128 ranges, and systems I'm looking at right now are > already using over 140 boot services regions. Some of them are > contiguous and we could just merge them for e820, but that leaves us at > the whim of whoever wrote the allocator for the firmware. And do you > want to bet on them having done this sanely? >
No, we're not limited to 128. We're limited to 128 in the boot structure, but more can be passed via the linked list.
-hpa
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