Re: 2.6.39.1 immediately reboots/resets on EFI system

[Matthew Garrett]

On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 02:31:38PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 06/08/2011 02:28 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > 
> > E820 limits us to 128 ranges, and systems I'm looking at right now are 
> > already using over 140 boot services regions. Some of them are 
> > contiguous and we could just merge them for e820, but that leaves us at 
> > the whim of whoever wrote the allocator for the firmware. And do you 
> > want to bet on them having done this sanely?
> > 
> 
> No, we're not limited to 128.  We're limited to 128 in the boot
> structure, but more can be passed via the linked list.

Oh, ok, that's not as bad as I thought. We're still potentially losing a 
pile of memory, but...

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/