Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:01:40 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3] x86, efi: Calling __pa() with an ioremap'd address is invalid |
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On 11/07/2011 12:58 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > >> However, "EFI stub in the kernel" doesn't mean "can't use an external >> bootloader." > > Agreed. It just means that we're still plausibly going to need some > handshaking between them. Alternatively, as long as the bootloader > passes us the memory map, we can just ignore any E820 map it gives us > anyway. >
I know we need to be able to pass the initramfs in memory; anything else we need other than the normal EFI executable entry conditions?
-hpa
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