Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Sep 2014 14:18:18 +0100 | From | Matt Fleming <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] beautify EFI memmap logs |
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On Wed, 03 Sep, at 03:01:31PM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > Tested-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> > (on arm64 only) > > +1 for aligning between architectures > +1 for cleaning up the output to make it more readable
Thanks Ard.
> The only thing I am not entirely convinced about is printing all those > memory attributes: is it really so interesting to know that region X > /can/ be configured as writeback, write through, write combining etc > etc, as most regions seem to support most attributes, yet it tells you > nothing about what the kernel ends up doing with that information. In > the arm64 case, for instance, all MEMORY_WB ranges are mapped > writeback cached, and everything else is mapped uncached.
Personally, I think it's good to get an unadulterated version of the firmware memory map (for vicarious debugging) before the kernel has a chance to mess with it.
-- Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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