From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: early_res and find_e820_area for i386?
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 11:34:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080304103448.GC17621@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47CCCED4.30607@zytor.com>
* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>> BTW: Why not merge e820_32.c and e820_64.c? At least part of them.
>
> What we *should* do, on both i386 and x86-64, is to create a synthetic
> e820 table of any non-e820 information, and then yes, we should merge
> the code.
>
> In other words, we should have an e820 table which reflects what the
> kernel considers true about the memory space.
i'd strongly support the moving of this from the realm of talk into the
realm of code! :-)
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-04 10:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-04 3:38 early_res and find_e820_area for i386? Huang, Ying
2008-03-04 4:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-04 10:34 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-03-04 10:41 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-04 10:48 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-04 11:46 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-04 16:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
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