Re: 2.6.39.1 immediately reboots/resets on EFI system

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 06/08/2011 02:28 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> 
> E820 limits us to 128 ranges, and systems I'm looking at right now are 
> already using over 140 boot services regions. Some of them are 
> contiguous and we could just merge them for e820, but that leaves us at 
> the whim of whoever wrote the allocator for the firmware. And do you 
> want to bet on them having done this sanely?
> 

No, we're not limited to 128.  We're limited to 128 in the boot
structure, but more can be passed via the linked list.

	-hpa
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