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| author | Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> | 2016-07-21 14:16:51 -0700 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> | 2016-07-22 11:46:01 +0200 |
| commit | 30f027398b329c75c8f23a3c13be240b50866fdc (patch) | |
| tree | e5709cc23928e7f7e0e7cda42708187d9b124bc5 | |
| parent | edce21216a8887bf06ba85ee49a00695e44c4341 (diff) | |
x86/boot: Clarify what x86_legacy_features.reserve_bios_regions does
It doesn't just control probing for the EBDA -- it controls whether we
detect and reserve the <1MB BIOS regions in general.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <[email protected]>
Cc: Mario Limonciello <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Toshi Kani <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/55bd591115498440d461857a7b64f349a5d911f3.1469135598.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/x86_init.h | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/x86_init.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/x86_init.h index c519c052700a..66c15a01667f 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/x86_init.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/x86_init.h @@ -168,8 +168,9 @@ struct x86_legacy_devices { * struct x86_legacy_features - legacy x86 features * * @rtc: this device has a CMOS real-time clock present - * @reserve_bios_regions: it's safe to search for the EBDA signature in the hardware's - * low RAM + * @reserve_bios_regions: boot code will search for the EBDA address and the + * start of the 640k - 1M BIOS region. If false, the platform must + * ensure that its memory map correctly reserves sub-1MB regions as needed. * @devices: legacy x86 devices, refer to struct x86_legacy_devices * documentation for further details. */ |