From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, hpa@zytor.com, andi@firstfloor.org,
mingo@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, yhlu.kernel@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86 boot: Pass E820 memory map entries more than 128 via linked list of setup data
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:48:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080623044813.d2fee3a0.pj@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1214212441.27182.4.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com>
Huang wrote:
> 4. Current EFI memmap based code does not work properly in all
> situation, for example it can not works with kernel parameter:
> "memmap=exactmap, memmap=<xxx>, ...", "mem=<xxx>" or "noefi".
With "noefi" parameter, my EFI memmap based code is not supposed
to do anything. The "noefi" parameter asks the kernel to ignore
any EFI support in the firmware it is booting from.
Could you tell me more what you mean by "does not work properly?"
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-23 9:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-11 3:33 [PATCH] x86 boot: Pass E820 memory map entries more than 128 via linked list of setup data Huang, Ying
2008-06-18 11:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-06-23 5:54 ` Huang, Ying
2008-06-23 6:53 ` Paul Jackson
2008-06-23 7:21 ` Huang, Ying
2008-06-23 8:47 ` Paul Jackson
2008-06-23 9:14 ` Huang, Ying
2008-06-23 9:48 ` Paul Jackson [this message]
2008-06-24 1:09 ` Huang, Ying
2008-06-24 5:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-06-24 7:03 ` Huang, Ying
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