On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 12:37:51PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Wed, 17 May 2023 at 12:24, Gerd Hoffmann <kra...@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > If PcdUse1GPageTable is not enabled restrict the physical address space
> > used to 1TB, to limit the amount of memory needed for identity mapping
> > page tables.
> >
> > The same already happens in case the processor has no support for
> > gigabyte pages.
> >
> 
> Apologies for the noob question, but does this mean EDK2 maps the
> entire address space 1:1, not just the region that as any DRAM in it?

I just saw memory usage and boot time go up.  Didn't check whenever that
was just the 64-bit mmio area (which recent ovmf scales up with the
available address space) or all address space.

take care,
  Gerd



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