Re: [Xen-devel] EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen

[Vladimir 'Ï-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <phcoder@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 21.10.2013 23:16, Vladimir 'Ï-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> Mail is big, I think I got your essential points but I didn't read it whole.
> On 21.10.2013 14:57, Daniel Kiper wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> During work on multiboot2 protocol support for Xen it was discovered
>> that memory map passed via relevant tag could not represent wide range
>> of memory types available on EFI platforms. Additionally, GRUB2
>> implementation calls ExitBootServices() on them just before jumping
>> into loaded image. In this situation loaded system could not clearly
>> identify reserved memory regions, EFI runtime services regions and others.
>>
> Will a multiboot2 tag with whole EFI memory map solve your problem?
I added such a tag in documentation and wrote a patch for it (attached).
Awaiting for someone to test it to commit

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