From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>,
Chandramouli Narayanan <mouli@linux.intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC -mm 0/2] i386/x86_64 boot: 32-bit boot protocol
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:40:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200709171040.27043.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1190017572.5866.20.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com>
On Monday 17 September 2007 10:26:12 Huang, Ying wrote:
> For machine with some new BIOS other than legacy BIOS, such as EFI,
> LinuxBIOS, etc, and kexec, the 16-bit real mode setup code in kernel
> based on legacy BIOS can not be used, so a 32-bit boot protocol need
> to be defined.
The patch doesn't seem to be what you advertise in the description.
Can you start with a patch that just implements the new boot protocol
parsing for better review? The EFI code should be all in separate
patches.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-17 9:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-17 8:26 [RFC -mm 0/2] i386/x86_64 boot: 32-bit boot protocol Huang, Ying
2007-09-17 8:40 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-09-17 8:47 ` Huang, Ying
2007-09-17 14:30 ` Andi Kleen
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