Re: [PATCH] EFI: Only set regions uncacheable if they support it

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Mar 15 2012 - 10:18:16 EST


On 03/15/2012 07:07 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>
> I have a report of a system that fails to boot with an MCE during EFI
> setup. The memory range is marked reserved and claims not to support any
> caching type, which I think probably translates as "Don't do anything to
> this region ever".
>

In other words, "don't map me"... not something we really support at the
moment, but perhaps we should; at least until we find systems in the
field that break with that constraint :(

-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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