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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/4] efi/x86: move efi bgrt init code to early init code
    On 01/12/17 at 04:20pm, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
    > On 12 January 2017 at 09:41, Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> wrote:
    > > Before invoking the arch specific handler, efi_mem_reserve() reserves
    > > the given memory region through memblock.
    > >
    > > efi_bgrt_init will call efi_mem_reserve after mm_init(), at that time
    > > memblock is dead and it should not be used any more.
    > >
    > > efi bgrt code depend on acpi intialization to get the bgrt acpi table,
    > > moving bgrt parsing to acpi early boot code can make sure efi_mem_reserve
    > > in efi bgrt code still use memblock safely.
    > >
    > > Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
    >
    > I know this is probably out of scope for you, but since we're moving
    > things around, any chance we could do so in a manner that will enable
    > BGRT support for arm64/ACPI? Happy to test/collaborate on this.
    >

    I'm happy to do so, Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com> said he had
    some investigation on that already, I would like to ask him to help on that.

    Already cced him..

    Thanks
    Dave

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