From: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>,
akpm@osdl.org, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Subject: Re: [patch] Fix BIOS-e820 end address
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:31:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070914213159.GD6078@linux-os.sc.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46EAF652.9060405@goop.org>
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 02:00:02PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Keshavamurthy, Anil S wrote:
> > Subject: [patch] Fix BIOS-e820 end address
> >
> > --snip of boot message--
> > BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
> > BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
> > BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
> > BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000007fe8cc00 (usable)
> > ----end snip---
> >
> > As you see from above the address 0000000000100000 is both
> > shown as reserved and usable which is confusing.
> >
>
> I think this is consistent with many other kernel interfaces (such as
> /proc/X/maps) where the end address is taken to be exclusive: [0xf0000,
> 0x100000).
Andrew, Please disregard this patch. As Jermy, Jan pointed out, this
will cause more confusions. Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-14 21:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-08 20:50 [patch] Fix BIOS-e820 end address Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-09-08 7:05 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-14 21:00 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-09-14 21:31 ` Siddha, Suresh B [this message]
2007-09-14 21:31 ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
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