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

From: Paul Jackson
Date: Mon Jun 16 2008 - 04:31:45 EST


Yinghai wrote:
> EFI memmap and ebda is partial overlapping?
>
> you may expand range_in_ebda_area(), and let it handle overlapping...

Ok - now I understand your comment.

I hesitated at first to handle the overlapping case because it was
not clear to me how to handle it (and I didn't happen to need it ;).

I suppose that what I should do is reserve any additional range in the
memmap not already in the ebda reservation.

ugh ;).

--
I won't rest till it's the best ...
Programmer, Linux Scalability
Paul Jackson <pj@xxxxxxx> 1.940.382.4214
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/