From: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
To: Thavatchai Makphaibulchoke <thavatchai.makpahibulchoke@hp.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, T Makphaibulchoke <tmac@hp.com>,
tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, x86@kernel.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, yinghai@kernel.org, tiwai@suse.de,
viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, aarcange@redhat.com,
tony.luck@intel.com, mgorman@suse.de, weiyang@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
octavian.purdila@intel.com, paul.gortmaker@windriver.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix devmem_is_allowed for below 1MB accesses for an efi machine
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 06:28:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121003052803.GA27464@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <506BC96D.10507@hp.com>
On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 11:13:17PM -0600, Thavatchai Makphaibulchoke wrote:
> Sounds like a better solution is to allow accesses to only I/O regions
> presented in the EFI memory map for physical addresses below 1 MB.
That won't work - unfortunately we do still need the low region to be
available for X because some platforms expect us to use int10 even on
EFI (yes, yes, I know). Do you have a copy of the EFI memory map for a
system that's broken with the current code?
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-03 5:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-02 21:32 T Makphaibulchoke
2012-10-02 21:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-10-03 4:31 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-03 4:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-10-03 5:15 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-03 5:13 ` Thavatchai Makphaibulchoke
2012-10-03 5:28 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2012-10-03 5:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-10-03 5:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
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