Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752702AbbBRH35 (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2015 02:29:57 -0500 Received: from mail-ie0-f170.google.com ([209.85.223.170]:43506 "EHLO mail-ie0-f170.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751230AbbBRH3z (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2015 02:29:55 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20150205060935.GA23096@dhcp-16-198.nay.redhat.com> References: <1423015400-12629-1-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org> <20150205032504.GB1903@darkstar.redhat.com> <20150205060935.GA23096@dhcp-16-198.nay.redhat.com> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 23:29:54 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: VrVmhHKZTznt0NyHQ3tExZCwDDc Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, boot: Allow 64bit EFI kernel to be loaded above 4G From: Yinghai Lu To: Dave Young Cc: Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , Ingo Molnar , Jonathan Corbet , Matt Fleming , Kees Cook , Junjie Mao , "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-efi@vger.kernel.org" , Linux Kernel Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1066 Lines: 31 On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 10:09 PM, Dave Young wrote: > On 02/04/15 at 09:25pm, Yinghai Lu wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 7:25 PM, Dave Young wrote: >> >> After this patch, could use patched grub2-x86_64.efi to place >> >> kernel/boot_params/cmd_line/initrd all above 4G and execute the kernel >> >> above 4G. >> > >> > Can you share the grub2 patch for testing? >> >> Please check attached 5 patches. last one is for debug purpose. >> >> You need to apply them on top of >> >> git://git.savannah.gnu.org/grub.git >> >> plus http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/grub2.git/plain/0091-Add-support-for-linuxefi.patch > FYI, I put those patches together with patches that extend grub2 to load kernel/initrd above 4G into github tree. https://github.com/yhlu/grub2.git Thanks Yinghai -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/