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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2] EFI: Runtime services virtual mapping
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 08:43:52 -0700
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On 10/02/2013 03:04 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> When we start allocating from -4G, i.e. 0xffffffff00000000, I think we
> want to do it bottom-up so that 0xffffffff00000000 is the *last*, i.e.
> lowest address. Because we link the kernel text at 0xffffffff81000000 by
> default, which would mean, if -4G was the first address, we'll have only
> 2G:

Right.

	-hpa