From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>,
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [LKML] Re: [PATCH 1/1] ibft, x86: Change reserve_ibft_region() to find_ibft_region()
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 12:12:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100408161210.GA13382@phenom.dumpdata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1004080852200.3558@i5.linux-foundation.org>
On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 08:53:48AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 8 Apr 2010, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> >
> > So arch code could decide the way to reserve the ibft.
> >
> > And We should reserve ibft as early as possible, instead of BOOTMEM stage,
> > in case the table is in RAM range and is not reserved by BIOS.
>
> For all I know this is all perfectly fine, but I have _no_ idea about how
> ibft is supposed to work, so I can't really judge it. As a result, I won't
> pull it without some more acks from people who actually know what that
> thing is..
Oh, I am definitely ACK-ing. Sorry about not explicitly stating that.
The developer is Yinghai Lu, I am the co-maintainer of the iBFT driver.
Linus, would you like me to modify the commit so that it has 'Acked-by:'
by me in the git tree?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-08 16:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-08 15:52 [GIT PULL IBFT] iBFT update for 2.6.34-rc3 Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-04-08 15:52 ` [PATCH 1/1] ibft, x86: Change reserve_ibft_region() to find_ibft_region() Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-04-08 15:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-04-08 16:12 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2010-04-08 17:14 ` [LKML] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-04-08 17:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-04-08 17:37 ` Peter Jones
2010-04-08 17:53 ` Yinghai
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