Re: [PATCH 3/3] Add details of UEFI interaction with /memory and /reserved-memory

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On 15/09/2020 18:09, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 at 20:06, Grant Likely <grant.likely@xxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
+Memory Reservation Block and UEFI
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+As with the ``/reserved-memory`` node (section :ref:`sect-reserved-memory-uefi`),
+when booting via [UEFI]_ entries in the Memory Reservation Block must also be
+listed in the system memory map obtained via the GetMemoryMap() to protect against
+allocations by UEFI applications.
+The memory reservation block entries should be listed with type
+``EfiBootServicesData``.
+

Didn't we just agree this should be EfiReservedMemoryType ?

That would be I-made-the-change-but-neglected-to-git-commit--amend-the-patch kind of error. Oops!

g.




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