Re: Confusions with reserve_early, reserve_bootmem, e820, efi, ...on x86_64

From: Paul Jackson
Date: Thu Jun 12 2008 - 18:14:17 EST


Yinghai wrote:
> what is addr that the EFI memmap should be according to spec?

The EFI memmap has no specific address by specification. Rather the
BIOS/firmware can put it where it will, and then pass that address via
the boot_parms.efi_info.memmap field. See include/asm-x86/bootparam.h
for these structures.

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