Re: [PATCH 04/16] Add minimum address parameter to efi_low_alloc()

2013-08-30 Thread Grant Likely
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Roy Franz wrote: > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 6:01 AM, Grant Likely > wrote: >> On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 16:26:05 -0700, Roy Franz wrote: >>> This allows allocations to be made low in memory while >>> avoiding allocations at the base of memory. >> >> Your commit

Re: [PATCH 04/16] Add minimum address parameter to efi_low_alloc()

2013-08-30 Thread Roy Franz
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 6:01 AM, Grant Likely wrote: > On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 16:26:05 -0700, Roy Franz wrote: >> This allows allocations to be made low in memory while >> avoiding allocations at the base of memory. > > Your commit message should include /why/ the change is needed. From the > above

Re: [PATCH 04/16] Add minimum address parameter to efi_low_alloc()

2013-08-30 Thread Grant Likely
On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 16:26:05 -0700, Roy Franz wrote: > This allows allocations to be made low in memory while > avoiding allocations at the base of memory. Your commit message should include /why/ the change is needed. From the above I understand what the patch does, but I don't understand why

Re: [PATCH 04/16] Add minimum address parameter to efi_low_alloc()

2013-08-30 Thread Grant Likely
On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 16:26:05 -0700, Roy Franz roy.fr...@linaro.org wrote: This allows allocations to be made low in memory while avoiding allocations at the base of memory. Your commit message should include /why/ the change is needed. From the above I understand what the patch does, but I

Re: [PATCH 04/16] Add minimum address parameter to efi_low_alloc()

2013-08-30 Thread Roy Franz
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 6:01 AM, Grant Likely grant.lik...@secretlab.ca wrote: On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 16:26:05 -0700, Roy Franz roy.fr...@linaro.org wrote: This allows allocations to be made low in memory while avoiding allocations at the base of memory. Your commit message should include /why/

Re: [PATCH 04/16] Add minimum address parameter to efi_low_alloc()

2013-08-30 Thread Grant Likely
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Roy Franz roy.fr...@linaro.org wrote: On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 6:01 AM, Grant Likely grant.lik...@secretlab.ca wrote: On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 16:26:05 -0700, Roy Franz roy.fr...@linaro.org wrote: This allows allocations to be made low in memory while avoiding

Re: [PATCH 04/16] Add minimum address parameter to efi_low_alloc()

2013-08-13 Thread Mark Salter
On Fri, 2013-08-09 at 16:26 -0700, Roy Franz wrote: > This allows allocations to be made low in memory while > avoiding allocations at the base of memory. > > Signed-off-by: Roy Franz > --- Tested on arm64. Acked-by: Mark Salter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH 04/16] Add minimum address parameter to efi_low_alloc()

2013-08-13 Thread Mark Salter
On Fri, 2013-08-09 at 16:26 -0700, Roy Franz wrote: This allows allocations to be made low in memory while avoiding allocations at the base of memory. Signed-off-by: Roy Franz roy.fr...@linaro.org --- Tested on arm64. Acked-by: Mark Salter msal...@redhat.com -- To unsubscribe from this

[PATCH 04/16] Add minimum address parameter to efi_low_alloc()

2013-08-09 Thread Roy Franz
This allows allocations to be made low in memory while avoiding allocations at the base of memory. Signed-off-by: Roy Franz --- arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c | 11 ++- drivers/firmware/efi/efi-stub-helper.c |7 +-- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

[PATCH 04/16] Add minimum address parameter to efi_low_alloc()

2013-08-09 Thread Roy Franz
This allows allocations to be made low in memory while avoiding allocations at the base of memory. Signed-off-by: Roy Franz roy.fr...@linaro.org --- arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c | 11 ++- drivers/firmware/efi/efi-stub-helper.c |7 +-- 2 files changed, 11