On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd rather the memmap= option works on all platforms. Unless we're going to > get rid of it entirely and exclusively use ACPI tables, I see no good reason > to leave this landmine lying around for someone else to blow their own leg > off. >
memmap= is already a landmine: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/6/28/819 Killing memmap= in favor of NFIT is a better way to go. I chatted with Peter off list about this problem and he wondered about re-purposing using the mBFT mechanism to define memory ranges: http://omniboot.org/txt/syslinux/memdisk.txt
