Messages in this thread | | | From | Grant Likely <> | Date | Fri, 30 Aug 2013 23:55:56 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 04/16] Add minimum address parameter to efi_low_alloc() |
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On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Roy Franz <roy.franz@linaro.org> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 6:01 AM, Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> wrote: >> On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 16:26:05 -0700, Roy Franz <roy.franz@linaro.org> wrote: >>> This allows allocations to be made low in memory while >>> avoiding allocations at the base of memory. >> >> Your commit message should include /why/ the change is needed. From the >> above I understand what the patch does, but I don't understand why it is >> necessary. > > This was used to avoid relocating the zImage so low in memory that it > would conflict > with memory range that it was decompressed into. This is now handled > by allocating > the memory for the decompressed kernel, so the lower limit is no > longer required. > I'll remove it, as it is not necessary any more.
Even better! :-)
g.
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