Re: [PATCH] x86, boot: Allow 64bit EFI kernel to be loaded above 4G

From: Dave Young
Date: Thu Feb 05 2015 - 01:10:00 EST


On 02/04/15 at 09:25pm, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 7:25 PM, Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> After this patch, could use patched grub2-x86_64.efi to place
> >> kernel/boot_params/cmd_line/initrd all above 4G and execute the kernel
> >> above 4G.
> >
> > Can you share the grub2 patch for testing?
>
> Please check attached 5 patches. last one is for debug purpose.
>
> You need to apply them on top of
>
> git://git.savannah.gnu.org/grub.git
>
> plus http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/grub2.git/plain/0091-Add-support-for-linuxefi.patch

> Subject: [PATCH] update setup_header and boot_params to 2.12
>
> the one that is used by kernel v3.8...

Thanks for quick feedback..
Dave
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