Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/efi: Drop support for fake EFI memory maps
From: Ard Biesheuvel
Date: Mon Jul 01 2024 - 18:25:51 EST
On Mon, 1 Jul 2024 at 22:54, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Tony Luck wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 01, 2024 at 01:17:01PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> > > [ add Tony who may care about the more-reliable removal ]
> >
> > I don't think I care about removal the fake options. I have had
> > systems that support real "more-reliable" memory for many years.
>
> Ok, lets remove it and see what happens. I recall now that the major
> policy knob that users may care about is efi=nosoftreserve, and the
> ability to specify efi_fake_mem for testing purposes can move to memmap=
> on the assumption that kernel-devs are much less likely to specify
> broken settings, or at least can pick up the pieces.
>
> Ard, you can add:
>
> Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
>
Thanks all.