Re: [PATCH] reserve end-of-conventional-memory to 1MB on 32-bit v2

Mark McLoughlin
2008-03-04T15:17:18Z

On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 15:49 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > > This is the second attempt at a i386-version of the ebda patch. I
> > > hope that one of the Xen people will be able to check that this does
> > > not break their setups, but I think it will be fine after their
> > > patch to exclude the 0x9f000- 0x100000 area explicitly in their
> > > setup.
> >
> > Confirmed that with Ian's e820 map patch and your patch, Xen DomU
> > boots fine.
>
> hm, for now i've only got the patch below queued up for v2.6.25.
>
> Could you check whether just the patch below ontop of -rc3-ish upstream
> solves the problem too? The EBDA patch would be a bit risky now - it's
> queued up for v2.6.26 at the moment.

Sorry, perhaps I wasn't clear.

Ian's patch to add a hole in the e820 map fixes the problem without any
other patch.

I was just confirming to Alexander that his EBDA patch didn't break
anything further.

Thanks,
Mark.