linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5 v2] x86 boot: various E820 & EFI related fixes

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Date:	Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:19:03 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Paul Jackson <pj@....com>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>,
	Jack Steiner <steiner@....com>, Mike Travis <travis@....com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5 v2] x86 boot: various E820 & EFI related fixes -
	what changed in v2


* Paul Jackson <pj@....com> wrote:

> The following patches differ from their previous versions,
> submitted a week ago, on the evening of Sun, 15 Jun 2008,
> in the following ways:
>  1) The "x86_64 build reserve_bootmem_generic fix" patch
>     is dropped, because it is already fixed in linux-next.
>     Thanks to Yinghai Lu.
>  2) The "allow overlapping ebda and efi memmap memory ranges"
>     patch is reworked.  Instead of allowing overlapping early
>     memory reservations on EFI boots, rather it allows
>     particular early memory reservations to overlap, if they
>     have been so marked.  Only the EBDA "BIOS reserved"
>     reservation is so marked for now; only it can overlap.
>     Thanks to H. Peter Anvin and Huang Ying.
>  3) The patches "remap efi systab runtime from phys to virt"
>     and "virtualize the efi runtime function callback addresses"
>     are dropped.  They were incorrect.  I fixed my EFI firmware
>     to follow the spec instead.  Thanks to Huang Ying.

applied to tip/x86/setup-memory, thanks Paul.

( the review feedback from Peter still needs to be addressed before the
  memmap-from-EFI portion of your changes can be considered for
  upstream. See http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/24/26. Should be pretty
  straightforward. )

	Ingo
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