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Subject: Re: [PATCH fixes 1/3] MIPS: Loongson64: Reserve vgabios memory on
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To:     Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>,
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On 11/1/23 2:39 PM, Jiaxun Yang wrote:

> vgabios is passed from firmware to kernel on Loongson64 systems.
> Sane firmware will keep this pointer in reserved memory space
> passed from the firmware but insane firmware keeps it in low
> memory before kernel entry that is not reserved.
> 
> Previously kernel won't try to allocate memory from low memory
> before kernel entry on boot, but after converting to memblock
> it will do that.
> 
> Fix by resversing those memory on early boot.

   Reserving? :-)

> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: a94e4f24ec83 ("MIPS: init: Drop boot_mem_map")
> Signed-off-by: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>
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MBR, Sergey