Re: [PATCH 4/8] x86 boot: allow overlapping ebda and efi memmapmemory ranges

[Huang, Ying]

On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 04:09 -0500, Paul Jackson wrote:
> Huang wrote:
> > I think it is sufficient for boot loader to avoid memory area from
> > 0x9f000 to 0x100000. This can be seen as compatible code for legacy
> > BIOS.
> 
> That might work -- I'll give it a try.
> 
> > I think if EBDA area is used in EFI system, it should be reserved in EFI
> > memory map.
> 
> Would you recommend doing this with code in arch/x86/kernel/head.c,
> that did not invoke reserve_ebda_region() if efi_enabled was set?

Yes.

Best Regards,
Huang Ying
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