From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Edgar Hucek <hostmaster@ed-soft.at>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Fix boot on efi 32 bit Machines [try #4]
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 23:22:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44B73827.9070108@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1lkqwyfv0.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> While we are thinking about this I have a stupid question.
> Currently if a memory mapped region does not fall in a standard PCI
> bar we insist it must be E820 reserved. However if we E820 reserve
> the memory of a standard pci bar it becomes unusable.
>
> Is this really the behavior that we intend?
>
> It gets confusing that E820 reserved gets double duty as memory
> the BIOS is using and MMIO space that is mapped by a non-standard bar.
>
Well, they are both really the same thing... "memory space the OS has no
idea how it works; here there be dragons."
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-14 6:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-26 21:19 [PATCH 1/1] Fix boot on efi 32 bit Machines [try #4] Edgar Hucek
2006-06-26 21:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-27 6:15 ` Edgar Hucek
2006-06-27 6:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-28 22:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-07-02 17:39 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-02 17:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-07-02 18:26 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-02 18:46 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-05 9:38 ` Edgar Hucek
2006-07-05 15:52 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-13 21:46 ` Edgar Hucek
2006-07-13 22:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-14 4:23 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-14 6:22 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2006-07-14 6:20 ` Edgar Hucek
2006-07-14 16:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-16 8:55 ` [PATCH 1/1] Add efi e820 memory mapping on x86 [try #1] Edgar Hucek
2006-07-25 4:29 ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-25 5:17 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-25 5:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-25 5:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-07-25 5:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-25 6:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-07-25 6:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-16 9:00 ` [PATCH 1/1] Add force of use MMCONFIG " Edgar Hucek
2006-07-25 4:33 ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-25 5:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-26 15:05 ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-26 22:22 [PATCH 1/1] Fix boot on efi 32 bit Machines [try #4] Thomas Meyer
2006-07-14 13:57 Chuck Ebbert
2006-07-14 14:45 ` Edgar Hucek
2006-07-14 19:28 ` Edgar Hucek
2006-07-16 12:09 Thomas Meyer
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