From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932668AbWGBSqZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Jul 2006 14:46:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932691AbWGBSqZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Jul 2006 14:46:25 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:51640 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932668AbWGBSqY (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Jul 2006 14:46:24 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Fix boot on efi 32 bit Machines [try #4] From: Arjan van de Ven To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Linus Torvalds , Edgar Hucek , LKML , akpm@osdl.org In-Reply-To: References: <44A04F5F.8030405@ed-soft.at> <44A0CCEA.7030309@ed-soft.at> <44A304C1.2050304@zytor.com> <44A8058D.3030905@zytor.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 20:46:12 +0200 Message-Id: <1151865973.3111.33.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Although I am surprised we could not just make that query by looking > at the resources. Possibly we are too early in boot. the problem in this specific case is that you try to compare the resource info (more or less, indirectly) to the memory map, and abort if there's a discrepancy, as a sanity check against b0rked bioses.