Re: [PATCH 2/2] ACPI: Overriding ACPI tables via initrd only works with an initrd and on X86

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On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 12:02 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 02/25/2013 12:00 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>
>> Can replace max_low_pfn_mapped with max_low_pfn instead ?
>> like to see if you can put acpi tables above 4G for x86_64.
>>
>> if it does not work, you can use min(max_low_pfn<<PAGE_SHIFT,  0xffffffffUL)
>> instead.
>>
>
> This is part of why we really need to get rid of these stupid variables
> one and for all.  The only exception should perhaps be to mark the
> HIGHMEM crossover point on HIGHMEM systems.

yes, we can drop max_low_pfn_mapped at least.

I should drop that in for-x86-mm2 time point, but saw ThomasR is using that,
so i dropped that patch to make the merge easy.

Now after Thomas change to max_low_pfn, we can drop max_low_pfn_mapped.

Yinghai
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