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Message-ID: <20150825153754.GY10728@bivouac.eciton.net>
Date:	Tue, 25 Aug 2015 16:37:54 +0100
From:	Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@...aro.org>
To:	Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
Cc:	Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@...aro.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Dan Zhao <dan.zhao@...ilicon.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <Catalin.Marinas@....com>,
	Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@....com>,
	Jian Zhang <zhangjian001@...ilicon.com>,
	Guangyue Zeng <zengguangyue@...ilicon.com>,
	Yiping Xu <xuyiping@...ilicon.com>,
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	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 3/3] arm64: dts: add Hi6220 mailbox node

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 04:51:22PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> >>    Arm kernel should either fetch memory information from
> >>    efi or DT.
> >
> > Absolutely.
> >
> >>    Currently arm kernel fetch both efi memory information and
> >>    reserved buffer from DTB at the same time.
> >
> > No, it does not.
> 
> It should not, but it does. Due to an oversight, the stub removes
> /memreserve/ entries but ignores the reserved-memory node completely.

Urgh.

> This was reported here in fact
> 
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.efi/5736/focus=5742
> 
> but there has not been a followup to this series.

Are all of those patches still relevant, or did some of them go in
already?

Haojian: can you give that patch a spin and see if it does what you
need, combined with adding the reserved areas to the UEFI memory map?

/
    Leif
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