On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 10:28 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 07/26/2013 01:24 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: >> >> Am I being too pedantic in expecting that we still mark it >> e820-reserved? >> >> This area really isnt an ordinary PCI resource such as a >> BAR or an MMIO region. It's truly system RAM (which cannot >> be moved/reallocated), used by graphics hardware, and the >> firmware should have marked it reserved. >> >> (The end result should be the same in any case, so this is >> a detail.) >> > > I, too, would prefer to see it marked as reserved. Yeah, current patches mark it as reserved. But since we don't want to duplicate the detection code we want to switch to a more unique name when mapping the e820 region into a iomem reservation so that when i915.ko loads we can dig it out again. -Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
