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Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:39:17 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> To: Paul Jackson <pj@....com> CC: yhlu.kernel@...il.com, andi@...stfloor.org, mingo@...e.hu, bwalle@...e.de, hannes@...urebad.de, ying.huang@...el.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, steiner@....com Subject: Re: Confusions with reserve_early, reserve_bootmem, e820, efi, ... on x86_64 Paul Jackson wrote: > > Reserving EBDA with EFI is fine by what little I know. > > But the current code doesn't like it -- if the EFI memmap range is inside > the EBDA range, then the reserve_early() routine panics with: > > "Overlapping early reservations" > > Something needs tweaking here somehow ... and I'm not the one to know what. > Right of course... in this particular case, one of the reservations is conservative "just in case" and the other is normative, but the code doesn't deal with that since it's potentially flagging a bug. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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