From: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com> To: grub-devel@gnu.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Cc: jgross@suse.com, eric.snowberg@oracle.com, arvidjaar@gmail.com, andrew.cooper3@citrix.com, seth.goldberg@oracle.com, phcoder@gmail.com Subject: [MULTIBOOT2 DOC PATCH 07/10] multiboot2: Say that memory maps may not be available on EFI platforms Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2016 22:30:41 +0200 [thread overview] Message-ID: <1465504244-17175-8-git-send-email-daniel.kiper@oracle.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <1465504244-17175-1-git-send-email-daniel.kiper@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com> --- doc/multiboot.texi | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/multiboot.texi b/doc/multiboot.texi index f1e0e09..c81b2ea 100644 --- a/doc/multiboot.texi +++ b/doc/multiboot.texi @@ -927,6 +927,10 @@ possible value for lower memory is 640 kilobytes. The value returned for upper memory is maximally the address of the first upper memory hole minus 1 megabyte. It is not guaranteed to be this value. +This tag may not be provided by some boot loaders on EFI platforms if EFI +boot services are enabled and available for loaded image (EFI boot services +not terminated tag exists in Multiboot information structure). + @subsection BIOS Boot device @example @group @@ -1078,6 +1082,10 @@ indicated a reserved area. The map provided is guaranteed to list all standard @sc{ram} that should be available for normal use. This type however includes the regions occupied by kernel, mbi, segments and modules. Kernel must take care not to overwrite these regions. +This tag may not be provided by some boot loaders on EFI platforms if EFI +boot services are enabled and available for loaded image (EFI boot services +not terminated tag exists in Multiboot information structure). + @subsection Boot loader name @example @group @@ -1310,6 +1318,9 @@ u32 | descriptor version| This tag contains EFI memory map as per EFI specification. +This tag may not be provided by some boot loaders on EFI platforms if EFI +boot services are enabled and available for loaded image (EFI boot services +not terminated tag exists in Multiboot information structure). @subsection EFI boot services not terminated @example -- 1.7.10.4 _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-09 20:32 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top [not found] <1465504244-17175-1-git-send-email-daniel.kiper@oracle.com> 2016-06-09 20:30 ` [MULTIBOOT2 DOC PATCH 01/10] multiboot2: Remove redundant if Daniel Kiper 2016-06-09 20:30 ` [MULTIBOOT2 DOC PATCH 02/10] multiboot2: Clarify meaning of information request header tag Daniel Kiper 2016-06-09 21:14 ` Andrew Cooper 2016-06-09 20:30 ` [MULTIBOOT2 DOC PATCH 03/10] multiboot2: Fix description of EFI boot services tag Daniel Kiper 2016-06-09 20:30 ` [MULTIBOOT2 DOC PATCH 04/10] multiboot2: Add description of support for EFI boot services Daniel Kiper 2016-06-09 20:30 ` [MULTIBOOT2 DOC PATCH 05/10] multiboot2: Add description of EFI image handle tags Daniel Kiper 2016-06-09 20:30 ` [MULTIBOOT2 DOC PATCH 06/10] multiboot2: Add description of support for relocatable images Daniel Kiper 2016-06-09 21:36 ` Andrew Cooper 2016-06-10 17:36 ` Daniel Kiper 2016-06-09 20:30 ` Daniel Kiper [this message] 2016-06-09 21:37 ` [MULTIBOOT2 DOC PATCH 07/10] multiboot2: Say that memory maps may not be available on EFI platforms Andrew Cooper 2016-06-09 20:30 ` [MULTIBOOT2 DOC PATCH 08/10] multiboot2: Add C structure alignment and padding consideration section Daniel Kiper 2016-06-09 22:07 ` Andrew Cooper [not found] ` <1c1e54de-2f19-20b6-b8c8-229619b95038@citrix.com> 2016-06-10 17:58 ` Daniel Kiper 2016-06-09 20:30 ` [MULTIBOOT2 DOC PATCH 09/10] multiboot2: Add me to authors Daniel Kiper 2016-06-09 20:30 ` [MULTIBOOT2 DOC PATCH 10/10] multiboot2: Bump version to 2.0 Daniel Kiper [not found] ` <1465504244-17175-2-git-send-email-daniel.kiper@oracle.com> 2016-06-09 21:02 ` [MULTIBOOT2 DOC PATCH 01/10] multiboot2: Remove redundant if Andrew Cooper [not found] ` <1465504244-17175-5-git-send-email-daniel.kiper@oracle.com> 2016-06-09 21:31 ` [MULTIBOOT2 DOC PATCH 04/10] multiboot2: Add description of support for EFI boot services Andrew Cooper
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