Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:09:04 -0500 | From | Paul Jackson <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/8] x86 boot: allow overlapping ebda and efi memmap memory ranges |
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Huang wrote: > I think it is sufficient for boot loader to avoid memory area from > 0x9f000 to 0x100000. This can be seen as compatible code for legacy > BIOS.
That might work -- I'll give it a try.
> I think if EBDA area is used in EFI system, it should be reserved in EFI > memory map.
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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