linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86 boot: Pass E820 memory map entries more than 128 via linked list of setup data

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Message-Id: <20080623044813.d2fee3a0.pj@sgi.com>
Date:	Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:48:13 -0500
From:	Paul Jackson <pj@....com>
To:	"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>
Cc:	mingo@...e.hu, hpa@...or.com, andi@...stfloor.org,
	mingo@...hat.com, tglx@...utronix.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	yhlu.kernel@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86 boot: Pass E820 memory map entries more than 128
 via linked list of setup data

Huang wrote:
> 4. Current EFI memmap based code does not work properly in all
> situation, for example it can not works with kernel parameter:
> "memmap=exactmap, memmap=<xxx>, ...", "mem=<xxx>" or "noefi".

With "noefi" parameter, my EFI memmap based code is not supposed
to do anything.  The "noefi" parameter asks the kernel to ignore
any EFI support in the firmware it is booting from.

Could you tell me more what you mean by "does not work properly?"

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