Re: [PATCH V3 2/3] Add support for avoiding firmware in relocations

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Re: [PATCH V3 2/3] Add support for avoiding firmware in relocations

From:	Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Subject:	Re: [PATCH V3 2/3] Add support for avoiding firmware in relocations
Date:	Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:25:36 +0100
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On 08.02.2012 17:55, Matthew Garrett wrote:

EFI and OF both support firmware regions which may be in use during loading.
Add support for avoiding these.

Also Seth Goldberg noticed that using chunk_align with start=end=targetdoes exactly what we want (as if avoid=1). You may need to modifyefi/relocator.c though as to which regions it considers available.


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Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko

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