Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:38:06 -0500 | From | Paul Jackson <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/8] x86 boot: allow overlapping ebda and efi memmap memory ranges |
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hpa wrote: > Realistically, we need the infrastructure to be able to make paranoia > reservations, and you need to be able to deal with later finding they > are actually in use.
While the tone of your reply sounds like something I would naturally agree with, I can't actually figure out what you mean in this case ;).
In particular, Peter, would you agree/disagree/other with the direction that Huang and I agreed to last night:
> Would you recommend doing this with code in arch/x86/kernel/head.c, > that did not invoke reserve_ebda_region() if efi_enabled was set?
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