[gPXE-devel] [PATCH v2][lkrn] add ramdisk support

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 06/02/2010 08:02 PM, Miller, Shao wrote:
> Fengguang,
>
> Is there a need to hide the initrd?  If gPXE relocates to underneath it,
> malloc() and umalloc() should allocate below the initrd's base, should
> they not?
>
> H. Peter,
>
> Could you please confirm whose responsibility it is to mark the initrd
> in the E820 map, if anyone's?  I couldn't find it in
> linux/Documentation/i386/boot.txt, but a glance at Syslinux' linux.c32
> suggested that it gets marked.
>

It doesn't get marked in the e820 map by the boot loader; the kernel 
reserves it on its own.

	-hpa