From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yinghai Lu Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, boot: Allow 64bit EFI kernel to be loaded above 4G Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 23:29:54 -0800 Message-ID: References: <1423015400-12629-1-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org> <20150205032504.GB1903@darkstar.redhat.com> <20150205060935.GA23096@dhcp-16-198.nay.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20150205060935.GA23096@dhcp-16-198.nay.redhat.com> Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Dave Young Cc: Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , Ingo Molnar , Jonathan Corbet , Matt Fleming , Kees Cook , Junjie Mao , "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-efi@vger.kernel.org" , Linux Kernel Mailing List List-Id: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 10:09 PM, Dave Young wrote: > On 02/04/15 at 09:25pm, Yinghai Lu wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 7:25 PM, Dave Young wrote: >> >> After this patch, could use patched grub2-x86_64.efi to place >> >> kernel/boot_params/cmd_line/initrd all above 4G and execute the kernel >> >> above 4G. >> > >> > Can you share the grub2 patch for testing? >> >> Please check attached 5 patches. last one is for debug purpose. >> >> You need to apply them on top of >> >> git://git.savannah.gnu.org/grub.git >> >> plus http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/grub2.git/plain/0091-Add-support-for-linuxefi.patch > FYI, I put those patches together with patches that extend grub2 to load kernel/initrd above 4G into github tree. https://github.com/yhlu/grub2.git Thanks Yinghai