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[PATCH] Add 2 more E820 to ACPI specification


From: Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Subject: [PATCH] Add 2 more E820 to ACPI specification
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:18:43 +0100
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Hello. This defines 2 more types for mmap_type in a way to match E820
values. As grub legacy and grub2 both just pass E820 values through it
shouldn't be any problem.

-- 
Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko

=== modified file 'doc/multiboot.texi'
--- doc/multiboot.texi  2010-01-12 16:49:46 +0000
+++ doc/multiboot.texi  2010-01-15 16:52:03 +0000
@@ -817,7 +817,9 @@
 can be greater than the minimum of 20 bytes. @samp{base_addr} is the
 starting address. @samp{length} is the size of the memory region in bytes.
 @samp{type} is the variety of address range represented, where a
-value of 1 indicates available @sc{ram}, and all other values currently
+value of 1 indicates available @sc{ram}, value of 3 indicates usable memory
+holding ACPI information, value of 4 indicates reserved memory which needs to
+be preserved on hibernation and all other values currently
 indicated a reserved area.
 
 The map provided is guaranteed to list all standard @sc{ram} that should

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