From: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
To: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>,
Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] x86: UV runtime bios calls
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:24:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080924042445.GB135367@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1222225747.23099.104.camel@yhuang-dev.sh.intel.com>
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:09:07AM +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
> Hi, Russ,
>
> On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 16:06 -0500, Russ Anderson wrote:
> > This patch uses sal_systab. sal_systab is used on ia64, but was
> > not used on x86. An alternative would be to create a new
> > EFI entry type (uv_systab), though that would require adding
> > to struct efi.
>
> I don't think it is a good idea to use sal_systab, if it is not a real
> sal_systab. It's better to add new field such as uv_systab to struct
> efi, which is not defined by UEFI standard, so can be changed.
OK. My first development version took that approach, so
it I just have to put that code back in.
Thanks,
--
Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead
SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc rja@sgi.com
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-22 21:06 [PATCH 0/4] x86: UV runtime bios calls Russ Anderson
2008-09-24 2:49 ` Huang Ying
2008-09-24 3:09 ` Huang Ying
2008-09-24 4:24 ` Russ Anderson [this message]
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2008-09-29 22:02 Russ Anderson
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