From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
To: Michael Zimmermann <sigmaepsilon92@gmail.com>
Cc: "edk2-devel@lists.01.org" <edk2-devel@ml01.01.org>
Subject: Re: correct way to reserve memory from PrePi?
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 10:21:08 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKv+Gu_gGRiKgk7L__zG5KYbyhRRE0kqjOE3R85HGL2q85EL3A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN9vWDJ+1Ti69tFmEWo+z__f6aTGmpXGLhcTXEmeNOt8SAi1NQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 14 December 2016 at 10:02, Michael Zimmermann
<sigmaepsilon92@gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried both BuildResourceDescriptorHob and BuildMemoryAllocationHob
> but apparently they don't have any effect.
> When I look at the output of the shell's memmap command there aren't
> any reserved/unavailable pages.
>
> Furthermore, when using AllocatePages with one of the physical
> addresses which I've reserved it succeeds which means that it's not
> just a problem of how the memmap command works.
>
> Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?
>
I think you need to ensure that they don't overlap existing resource
descriptors: if you declare a region as reserved, you should not
declare it as memory first
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-14 10:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-14 10:02 correct way to reserve memory from PrePi? Michael Zimmermann
2016-12-14 10:21 ` Ard Biesheuvel [this message]
2016-12-14 15:13 ` Michael Zimmermann
2016-12-14 17:57 ` Michael Zimmermann
2016-12-15 4:55 ` Gao, Liming
2016-12-15 5:02 ` Michael Zimmermann
2016-12-15 5:12 ` Gao, Liming
2016-12-15 5:27 ` Michael Zimmermann
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