From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Fleming Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86, boot: Allow 64bit EFI kernel to be loaded above 4G Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 12:57:44 +0000 Message-ID: <20150225125744.GE9758@codeblueprint.co.uk> References: <1424663028-13066-1-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org> <20150224215501.GB9758@codeblueprint.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-efi-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Yinghai Lu Cc: Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , Ingo Molnar , Jonathan Corbet , Matt Fleming , Kees Cook , Junjie Mao , "linux-doc-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "linux-efi-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , Linux Kernel Mailing List List-Id: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 24 Feb, at 04:31:27PM, Yinghai Lu wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Matt Fleming wrote: > > On Sun, 22 Feb, at 07:43:48PM, Yinghai Lu wrote: > >> +Field name: ext_code32_start > >> +Type: modify (optional, reloc) > >> +Offset/size: 0x268/4 > >> +Protocol: 2.14+ > >> + > >> + This field is the upper 32bits of load address when EFI 64bit kernel > >> + is loaded above 4G. And it is used with code32_start to compare to > >> + pref_address to decide if kernel need to be relocated further. > > > > I think we can delete the second sentence. > > > > But these are minimal changes and I'm happy to fix them up when applying > > this patch if that's OK? > > Sure. Please go ahead. Applied, thanks Yinghai. -- Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center