Re: [PATCH -v4] x86: only load initrd above 4g on second try

From: Matt Fleming
Date: Fri Sep 05 2014 - 18:16:25 EST


On Thu, 04 Sep, at 01:59:05PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> I am fine with this patch, but at the same time I do want to note that
> there is an alternative to double-buffer the patch and/or (if that
> applies to the buggy BIOS) round up the size of the target buffer.

I took a whack at the double-buffer strategy, and I think the patch is
conceptually pretty straight forward.

Could someone try out the following patch? It works around the problem
on my ASUS machine.

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