On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 01:50:22PM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
> This series of patches converts the PowerPC ieee1275 memory allocator
> for kernel and initrd to use the (PowerPC) regions_claim memory allocator
> that takes into account memory regions that are not allowed to be used,
> such as the gap between 640MB and 768MB as well as memory regions beyond
> an address in case an fadump is present. Otherwise those two could be
> loaded into restricted memory regions and either cause a crash or
> corruption of the fadump.
>
> I adjusted the kernel and initrd load in loader/powerpc/ieee1275 to use the
> new memory allocator only on PowerVM and PowerKVM since this code is shared
> with other platforms, such as old PowerMACs.

I have sent you some more comments. Mostly nits. If you take them into
account feel free to add my RB to all patches.

Thanks,

Daniel

_______________________________________________
Grub-devel mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Reply via email to