> On Oct 23, 2013, at 12:05 AM, Daniel Kiper <daniel.ki...@oracle.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 10:54:44AM +0200, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' >> Serbinenko wrote: >>> On 21.10.2013 23:16, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: >>> Mail is big, I think I got your essential points but I didn't read it whole. >>>> On 21.10.2013 14:57, Daniel Kiper wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> During work on multiboot2 protocol support for Xen it was discovered >>>> that memory map passed via relevant tag could not represent wide range >>>> of memory types available on EFI platforms. Additionally, GRUB2 >>>> implementation calls ExitBootServices() on them just before jumping >>>> into loaded image. In this situation loaded system could not clearly >>>> identify reserved memory regions, EFI runtime services regions and others. >>> Will a multiboot2 tag with whole EFI memory map solve your problem? >> I added such a tag in documentation and wrote a patch for it (attached). > > Thanks. Could you send me a pointer to current multiboot2 protocol docs? > >> Awaiting for someone to test it to commit > > On first sight it looks quite nice. However, as I know Solaris guys > prepared similar solution. I am not sure it was discussed with GRUB2 > guys. However, I think that it is worth coordinating both works and > do not break existing solution if it is possible. > > I will try to get more details about Solaris implementation.
It's compatible. Vladimir based this change on the changes we made; we just need to test to verify. --S > > Daniel > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > grub-de...@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
