Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Nov 2013 20:48:51 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] Early use of boot service memory | From | Pekka Enberg <> |
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Hi Jerry,
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 7:55 PM, <jerry.hoemann@hp.com> wrote: > My change does not address platforms that have misbehaving firmware. > It just allows platforms that don't have this issue to avoid issues > that the call to efi_reserve_boot_services presents.
The problem I have with your patch is that it (1) relies on users to pass a kernel option and (2) leaves machines with "faulty firmware" out in the cold. So I'm wondering if we can fix reserve_crashkernel() to deal with reality that there indeed are broken firmware out there?
If someone is able to come up with a convincing argument why crashkernel cannot be fixed on such machines, we'd need to start whitelisting known good firmwares, no?
Pekka
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