Re: [PATCH 10/10] x86 boot: add code to add BIOS provided EFI memoryentries to kernel

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Tue May 27 2008 - 15:17:13 EST


Paul Jackson wrote:

But I reply mine is better, because we can already provide, with the
current EFI interfaces, all the entries from the boot loader to the
kernel, so we do not need to provide them twice, a second time via an
E820 map mechanism that must be revised and extended to handle the
additional memory map entries past the first 128 of them.


This was discussed over a year ago, and it was declared the boot loaders' responsibility. Please go back and look at the archives for the discussion rather than rehashing it at this time.

-hpa
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