On 04/18/2013 12:55 PM, Matt Fleming wrote: > On 04/18/2013 05:44 PM, Josh Triplett wrote: >>>> The machine I developed the BGRT changes on kept the image below the 4G >>>> mark, inside one of the memory regions reclaimable via >>>> ExitBootServices(). >>> >>> Well, highmem is >= ~896M. Do you have a machine with BGRT over the >>> highmem mark? >> >> I don't have the machine in question anymore, and I don't remember. > > Sorry, I should have been more clear - having a BGRT image in highmem > has never worked for the reasons I outlined in my previous mail. What I > was really asking was: is it OK that we now explicitly don't support > that case? I'm working on the assumption that it's pointless writing > support for the BGRT in highmem because no such i386 machines exist. If > the BGRT code works for your i386 right now, the address isn't in highmem. > > If there are machines out there that would require us to write support, > it's probably worth doing now instead of punting. But it sounds like > there aren't any. > I suspect if there aren't any yet there WILL be. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
