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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: Ugly patches for stolen reservation
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 17:49:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51F1C7B4.2010100@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130725161715.50d85926@jbarnes-desktop>

On 07/25/2013 04:17 PM, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> Well, it's ok if the boot loader writes to this memory, the worst
> that'll happen is you'll see garbage on the screen.  If the boot loader
> tries to do MMIO mapping on top it'll get into trouble... but why would
> it do that?
> 
> Jesse

Much worse: it could be hunting for a place to put the kernel, and put
it there.

	-hpa



  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-26  0:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-25 16:37 Ugly patches for stolen reservation Jesse Barnes
2013-07-25 16:37 ` [PATCH 1/2] drm/i915: split PCI IDs out into i915_drm.h v3 Jesse Barnes
2013-07-25 23:06   ` Chris Wilson
2013-07-25 16:37 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86: add early quirk for reserving Intel graphics stolen memory v3 Jesse Barnes
2013-07-25 22:42   ` Chris Wilson
2013-07-25 22:59     ` Chris Wilson
2013-07-25 23:18       ` Jesse Barnes
2013-07-26  8:10   ` [Intel-gfx] " Daniel Vetter
2013-07-26 16:58   ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-26 17:12     ` Jesse Barnes
2013-07-25 20:05 ` Ugly patches for stolen reservation Ingo Molnar
2013-07-25 20:16   ` Jesse Barnes
2013-07-25 22:10     ` [Intel-gfx] " Daniel Vetter
2013-07-25 22:42   ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-25 23:17     ` Jesse Barnes
2013-07-26  0:49       ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2013-07-26  0:31     ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-26  0:48       ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-26 17:52         ` [Intel-gfx] " Daniel Vetter
2013-07-26 15:51       ` Jesse Barnes
     [not found] <rddfy5e894xuv6d47gu7hbuh.1374804892449@email.android.com>
2013-07-26  3:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-26 15:33   ` Jesse Barnes
2013-07-26 20:24     ` Ingo Molnar
2013-07-26 20:28       ` H. Peter Anvin

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