Re: [PATCH] Always use 64 bit addresses for the firmware memory map

From: Bernhard Walle
Date: Wed Nov 12 2008 - 16:11:19 EST


* H. Peter Anvin [2008-11-12 11:59]:
>
> I want to make sure, though, that we don't just end up pushing the
> truncation further down in the code.

Well, I think that interface should export the BIOS memmap as provided.
Since E820 does provide 64 bit addresses, that should get exported.

It should even possible to kexec a PAE kernel from a non PAE kernel ...
I didn't test, but it could work. But only if the E820 map is correctly
written in the zero page, which is only the case if we get it correctly.


Regards,
Bernhard
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Bernhard Walle, SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Architecture Development
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