[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 06/21] efi_loader: Allow SMBIOS tables in highmem

Alexander Graf agraf at suse.de
Thu Jun 21 09:38:56 UTC 2018


On 06/21/2018 04:01 AM, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> On 18 June 2018 at 09:23, Alexander Graf <agraf at suse.de> wrote:
>> We try hard to make sure that SMBIOS tables live in the lower 32bit.
>> However, when we can not find any space at all there, we should not
>> error out but instead just fall back to map them in the full address
>> space instead.
> Does this actually happen?

No, but it can. It really doesn't need to be part of this patch set either.

The main target where things like this can happen would be systems like 
an AMD Seattle, which does not have any RAM mapped <4GB.


Alex



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