Why do we pass memory map both in e820 and efi_info

Vivek Goyal vgoyal at redhat.com
Wed May 7 10:58:58 PDT 2014


Hi Dave/Chao,

I am going through kexec-tools code and it looks like that for EFI
systems, we pass memory map entries both in bootparams e820 memory map
as well as efi_info. I am wondering why that's the case?

IOW, I am also trying to figure out as a bootloader, when should we
pass memmap in e820 and when should it be passed in efi_info.

Thanks
Vivek




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