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Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:34:23 -0700
From: "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
To: "Paul Jackson" <pj@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] x86 boot: allow overlapping ebda and efi memmap memory ranges
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On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 12:32 AM, Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> wrote:
> Yinghai wrote:
>> how about patial overlapping?
>
> I do not understand what you ask.
>
> I suppose your question is a minor typo of:
>
>> how about partial overlapping?
>
> ... however I don't understand that either - sorry.

EFI memmap and ebda is partial overlapping?

you may expand range_in_ebda_area(), and let it handle overlapping...

YH