linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: Find correct 64 bit ramdisk address for microcode early update

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Date:	Tue, 1 Jul 2014 11:38:00 -0700
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Find correct 64 bit ramdisk address for microcode
 early update

On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 4:58 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
> On 06/10/2014 10:04 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> When using kexec with 64bit kernel, bzImage and ramdisk could be
>> loaded above 4G. We need this to get correct ramdisk adress.
>>
>> Make get_ramdisk_image() global and use it for early microcode updating.
>> Also make it to take boot_params pointer for different usage.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
>
> Please update your patch description to explain what "different usage"
> you have in mind here.

oh, no. I should drop that line. That is left over for parsing
acpi/srat patchset.

Thanks

Yinghai
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