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Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 22:20:42 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Add movablecore_map boot option
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On 11/26/2012 09:43 PM, Tang Chen wrote:
>
> And about how to fix it, as you said, we can handle the situation if
> user specified DMA address as movable. But how to handle "too little
> memory for kernel to start" case ?  Is there any info about how much
> at least memory kernel needs ?
>

Not really, and it depends on so many variables.

	-hpa


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