From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Problem with elilo 3.3a
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 07:09:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590709805849@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590709805846@msgid-missing>
>>>>> On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 22:58:53 -0800, Stephane Eranian <eranian@frankl.hpl.hp.com> said:
Stephane> Note that the memory map itself IS NOT allocated inside
Stephane> the boot_param structure. This structure only contains a
Stephane> pointer to it as well as the size of the region. The map
Stephane> is dynamically allocated (in util.c). The kernel
Stephane> (arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c) assumes all "valid" memory
Stephane> regions are free except for regions it knows about which
Stephane> are: - the boot param struct - the memory map (address in
Stephane> size in boot param struct) - initrd - command line string
Stephane> - kernel code and data
That's not good. The kernel assumes that the efi_memmap was copied
and happily scribbles over it. I thought the bootloader used to make
a copy of the mem-map. Am I misremembering?
--david
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-14 7:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-14 3:15 [Linux-ia64] Problem with elilo 3.3a Sluder, Charles
2003-02-14 6:58 ` Stephane Eranian
2003-02-14 7:09 ` David Mosberger [this message]
2003-02-14 7:28 ` Stephane Eranian
2003-02-14 7:34 ` David Mosberger
2003-02-14 18:33 ` Sluder, Charles
2003-02-15 6:28 ` Sluder, Charles
2003-02-18 18:23 ` Stephane Eranian
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