>>> On 21.01.15 at 03:30, <kevin.t...@intel.com> wrote: >> From: Jan Beulich [mailto:jbeul...@suse.com] >> Yeah, for the actual E820 the conversion of course has to happen. >> But I think there's no strong need for it to be done on the variant >> obtainable via hypercall - it would only destroy information, and who >> knows what having that piece of information available may be good >> for in the future. > > If not destroying the new flag, it may break BIOS or OS if they don't know > the new flag. So I'd interpret the life cycle of new flag bit only valid > between hypercall return and constructing actual e820, and it will be > translated into E820_RESERVE in actual e820 if no conflict is detected.
That's what I said above. I'm advocating for keeping the flag set only in what the hypercall returns. Jan _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
