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

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Thu Jun 21 19:44:49 UTC 2018


Hi Alex,

On 21 June 2018 at 03:38, Alexander Graf <agraf at suse.de> wrote:
>
> 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.

Ah OK. Then I think you should add that info to the commit message so
it is clear the problem we are solving.

Regards,
Simon


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