[PATCH v2 1/2] efi: esrt: use memremap not ioremap to access ESRT table in memory

Matt Fleming matt at codeblueprint.co.uk
Wed Mar 2 02:23:49 PST 2016


On Wed, 02 Mar, at 09:16:19AM, Dave Young wrote:
> 
> Matt, thanks. One question is for the acpi patches you sent before, do you
> think they are still necessary as a fix for the bgrt problem and coexist
> with the "reserve useful boot services" proposal?

No, the previous ACPI patches I sent can be thrown in the bin if we go
with the approach outlined in this email.

This approach is superior because it allows useful features such as
ESRT and the new memory attributes to be used for kexec boot - the
ACPI patches prevented a crash by disabling BGRT.



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