On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 03:55:24PM +0000, Matt Fleming wrote:
> On Mon, 09 Feb, at 12:23:15PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Matt Fleming <m...@codeblueprint.co.uk>
> > wrote:
> > > On Tue, 03 Feb, at 06:03:20PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > >
> > > The first thing that comes to mind is the issues we experienced last
> > > year when adding support for loading initrds above 4GB to the EFI boot
> > > stub, c.f. commit 47226ad4f4cf ("x86/efi: Only load initrd above 4g on
> > > second try").
> > >
> > > Are things going to work correctly this time?
> >
> > That should be addressed the grub2.
>
> I vaguely remember thinking that the issue was only experienced when
> using the EFI_FILE protocol, which grub2 doesn't use. So the grub
> developers may be OK, but we should at least give them a heads up.
Looks correct to me.
> > I was thinking that we may need to add mem_limit command together with
> > linuxefi and initrdefi.
> > or add linuxefi64/initrdefi64?
>
> No, we definitely do not want to add any more grub commands.
Definitely agree.
> > BTW, I tested loading kernel above grub2 on
> > virutalbox, qemu/kvm/OVMF, and real servers (ami ...) all work without
> > problem.
> >
> > wonder if we need have one black list for 64bit UEFI that does not
> > support access
> > memory above 4G.
>
> We have been successful, so far, in not introducing these kind of
> blacklists. It would be a shame to start now.
>From grub's point of view I'm not sure why we'd care - the pages kernel
and initramfs land in are both from the Boot Services allocator, so if the
machine doesn't support high addresses, they won't be there.
--
Peter
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