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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [LKML] Re: [PATCH 1/1] ibft, x86: Change reserve_ibft_region()
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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?