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To:	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>
Subject:	[Xen-ia64-devel] Re: GFW - unsorted memmap?
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Date:	Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:05:48 +0200
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Quoting Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>:

> Hi Tristan,
>
>    I noticed that the memory map produced by the open source GFW isn't
> producing a sorted list.  It's putting the MMIO and I/O port space
> ranges after everything else.  This appears to be a bug in the EDK2 that
> it simply appends entries from the mGcdMemorySpaceMap list after those
> from the gMemoryMap list.  I did a quick and dirty bubble sort at the
> end of CoreGetMemoryMap() to fix this up.  Any ideas for a better
> solution?  Thanks,

I quickly browse EFI spec but I have not found the requirement.  Are you
sure the memmap must be sorted ?

Tristan.

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