>>>>> On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 17:53:14 -0600, Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> said: Bjorn> I think it would be a good idea to always print a note when Bjorn> trimming the EFI memory map, even if it's not "available" Bjorn> memory. Bjorn> I just debugged a problem where we trimmed out some memory Bjorn> that contained ACPI tables. When we went to look at a table Bjorn> later, we used the wrong attribute because we couldn't find Bjorn> its address in the EFI memory map. This caused an MCA Bjorn> (uncached access to memory). Straightforward to debug, but Bjorn> the note would have made it quicker. The intention was to give the user an idea how much real & available memory is lost due to the trimming. When reporting unavailable memory, you'll lose that info. However, maybe we should be more verbose if EFI_DEBUG is enabled? --david - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Fri Sep 26 16:35:03 2003
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