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SubjectRe: [PATCH] EFI: Only set regions uncacheable if they support it
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 07:17:56AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 03/15/2012 07:07 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> >
> > I have a report of a system that fails to boot with an MCE during EFI
> > setup. The memory range is marked reserved and claims not to support any
> > caching type, which I think probably translates as "Don't do anything to
> > this region ever".
> >
>
> In other words, "don't map me"... not something we really support at the
> moment, but perhaps we should; at least until we find systems in the
> field that break with that constraint :(

Mapping should be harmless as long as we then don't touch it? I can't
think of any circumstances where we would.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org


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