From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bin Meng Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 21:03:06 +0800 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v1 2/2] x86: zImage: Propagate acpi_rsdp_addr to kernel via boot parameters In-Reply-To: References: <20180110174015.79799-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> <20180110174015.79799-2-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> <1515762061.7000.942.camel@linux.intel.com> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 5:22 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > On Sun, 2018-06-17 at 07:22 +0800, Bin Meng wrote: >> Hi Andy, >> >> On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 9:01 PM, Andy Shevchenko >> wrote: >> > On Fri, 2018-01-12 at 17:00 +0800, Bin Meng wrote: >> > > Hi Andy, >> > > >> > > On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 1:40 AM, Andy Shevchenko >> > > wrote: >> > > > New field acpi_rsdp_addr, which has been introduced in boot >> > > > protocol >> > > > v2.14 [1], in boot parameters tells kernel the exact address of >> > > > RDSP >> > > > ACPI table. Knowing it increases robustness of the kernel by >> > > > avoiding >> > > > in some cases traversal through a part of physical memory. >> > > > It will slightly reduce boot time by the same reason. >> > > > >> > > > [1] See Linux kernel commit >> > > > >> > > > 2f74cbf947f4 ("x86/boot: Add the ACPI RSDP address to struct >> > > > setup_header::acpi_rdsp_addr") >> > > >> > > I don't see this commit id in my linux tree. Is this in some >> > > custodian's tree? >> > >> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/? >> > id=2 >> > f74cbf947f45fa082dda8eac1a1f1299a372f49 >> > >> >> I checked Linux kernel tree, seems the patch of adding acpi_rdsp_addr >> to setup_header was never accepted. Can you please double check, to >> see whether we still need this in U-Boot? >> >> I built a v4.17 kernel, and the boot protocol is still 2.13. > > Indeed. There were a discussion to not apply it for now. > I did not find the discussion. Do we need revert the changes in U-Boot? Regards, Bin