Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix ACPI BGRT support for images located in EFI boot services memory

H. Peter Anvin
2012-09-04T18:11:27Z

On 09/04/2012 10:59 AM, Josh Triplett wrote:
>
> Unfortunately not. We need enough of ACPI available to go read the
> BGRT to know what to copy, so we need to defer freeing boot services
> code until after we initialize ACPI (and thus everything ACPI needs,
> which includes EFI since ACPI looks for root tables there).
>
>> I wouldn't be surprised if some implementations got really cranky if
>> we accessed boot services data after we installed a new virtual memory
>> map.
>
> Note that I've carefully accessed the boot services data *through* the
> new virtual memory map, which should work fine.
>

There are some platforms which have bugs in this area, so there are
other reasons to defer freeing up boot memory until as late in the boot
process as we can possibly get away with.

free_initmem() is presuambly the place that makes most sense. This is
EFI-specific but not x86-specific, let's not commingle those concepts,
please...

-hpa

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