linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ACPI, APEI: Fix BERT resources conflict with ACPI NVS area

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Message-ID: <20170217100202.xi5x4lqdk6gqtfd5@pd.tnic>
Date:   Fri, 17 Feb 2017 11:02:02 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
To:     "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>
Cc:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
        Tomasz Nowicki <tomasz.nowicki@...aro.org>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>, Fu Wei <fu.wei@...aro.org>,
        linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI, APEI: Fix BERT resources conflict with ACPI NVS
 area

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 08:31:12AM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote:
> I am not sure whether the NVS area is a part of the BERT area, but
> apparently they are overlapped in some way.  We will access the whole
> BERT area here via ioremap the whole range.

This is the part that was missing from the commit message - explaining
*why* we need this fix.

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