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Message-ID: <50B45BBA.3090300@zytor.com>
Date:	Mon, 26 Nov 2012 22:20:42 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Tang Chen <tangchen@...fujitsu.com>
CC:	wujianguo <wujianguo106@...il.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	rob@...dley.net, isimatu.yasuaki@...fujitsu.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Add movablecore_map boot option

On 11/26/2012 09:43 PM, Tang Chen wrote:
>
> And about how to fix it, as you said, we can handle the situation if
> user specified DMA address as movable. But how to handle "too little
> memory for kernel to start" case ?  Is there any info about how much
> at least memory kernel needs ?
>

Not really, and it depends on so many variables.

	-hpa


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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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