Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86 boot: only pick up additional EFI memmap ifadd_efi_memmap flag

[Ingo Molnar]

* Paul Jackson <pj@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Paul Jackson <pj@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Applies on top of the previous patch:
>   x86 boot: add code to add BIOS provided EFI memory entries to kernel
> 
> Instead of always adding EFI memory map entries (if present) to the 
> memory map after initially finding either E820 BIOS memory map entries 
> and/or kernel command line memmap entries, -instead- only add such 
> additional EFI memory map entries if the kernel boot option:
> 
>     add_efi_memmap
> 
> is specified.
> 
> Requiring this 'add_efi_memmap' option is backward compatible with 
> kernels that didn't load such additional EFI memory map entries in the 
> first place, and it doesn't override a configuration that tries to 
> replace all E820 or EFI BIOS memory map entries with ones given 
> entirely on the kernel command line.

applied to tip/x86/setup-memory - thanks Paul.

	Ingo
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