Re: [PATCH v1 3/3] arm64: dts: add Hi6220 mailbox node

[Haojian Zhuang]

On Tue, 2015-08-25 at 16:37 +0100, Leif Lindholm wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 04:51:22PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > >>    Arm kernel should either fetch memory information from
> > >>    efi or DT.
> > >
> > > Absolutely.
> > >
> > >>    Currently arm kernel fetch both efi memory information and
> > >>    reserved buffer from DTB at the same time.
> > >
> > > No, it does not.
> > 
> > It should not, but it does. Due to an oversight, the stub removes
> > /memreserve/ entries but ignores the reserved-memory node completely.
> 
> Urgh.
> 
> > This was reported here in fact
> > 
> > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.efi/5736/focus=5742
> > 
> > but there has not been a followup to this series.
> 
> Are all of those patches still relevant, or did some of them go in
> already?
> 
> Haojian: can you give that patch a spin and see if it does what you
> need, combined with adding the reserved areas to the UEFI memory map?
> 
> /
>     Leif

It's so nice. This patch is what I need.

Thanks
Haojian

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