linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: make e820_saved have update from setup

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Message-ID: <86802c440807031432j6083b930y6e894b62fab041bd@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 3 Jul 2008 14:32:02 -0700
From:	"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
To:	"Bernhard Walle" <bwalle@...e.de>
Cc:	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"Ying Huang" <ying.huang@...el.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: make e820_saved have update from setup_data

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Bernhard Walle <bwalle@...e.de> wrote:
> * Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com> [2008-07-03 11:37]:
>>
>> +     /* update the e820_saved too */
>> +     e820_reserve_setup_data();
>
> Why do you want to update the e820_saved here? /sys/firmware/memmap
> should provide the real BIOS-provided memory map, IMO ...

that setup_data is another half memmap for efi.

YH
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