Re: [PATCH v1 3/3] arm64: dts: add Hi6220 mailbox node

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On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 04:51:22PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> >>    Arm kernel should either fetch memory information from
> >>    efi or DT.
> >
> > Absolutely.
> >
> >>    Currently arm kernel fetch both efi memory information and
> >>    reserved buffer from DTB at the same time.
> >
> > No, it does not.
> 
> It should not, but it does. Due to an oversight, the stub removes
> /memreserve/ entries but ignores the reserved-memory node completely.

Urgh.

> This was reported here in fact
> 
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.efi/5736/focus=5742
> 
> but there has not been a followup to this series.

Are all of those patches still relevant, or did some of them go in
already?

Haojian: can you give that patch a spin and see if it does what you
need, combined with adding the reserved areas to the UEFI memory map?

/
    Leif
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