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SubjectRe: Ugly patches for stolen reservation
On 07/26/2013 01:24 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> Am I being too pedantic in expecting that we still mark it
> e820-reserved?
>
> This area really isnt an ordinary PCI resource such as a
> BAR or an MMIO region. It's truly system RAM (which cannot
> be moved/reallocated), used by graphics hardware, and the
> firmware should have marked it reserved.
>
> (The end result should be the same in any case, so this is
> a detail.)
>

I, too, would prefer to see it marked as reserved.

-hpa




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