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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/3] Early use of boot service memory
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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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