* "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel at gmail.com> [2008-06-20 13:34]: > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Bernhard Walle <bwalle at suse.de> wrote: > > This patch brings back limiting of the E820 map when a user-defined > > E820 map is specified. While the behaviour of i386 (32 bit) was to limit > > the E820 map (and /proc/iomem), the behaviour of x86-64 (64 bit) was not to > > limit. > > then if you kexec new kernel, the second kernel will be have that > limitation too. > > any problem that you encountered without this patch? No, because the new kexec tool uses the /proc/firmware_mem or whatever it is called. Bernhard -- Bernhard Walle, SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Architecture Development
