From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Edgar Hucek <hostmaster@ed-soft.at>,
ebiederm@xmission.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Add efi e820 memory mapping on x86 [try #1]
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 22:34:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44C5AD50.1020305@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0607242227340.29649@g5.osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>> This Patch add an efi e820 memory mapping.
>>>
>> Why?
>
> EFI is this other Intel brain-damage (the first one being ACPI). It's
> totally different from a normal BIOS, and was brought on by ia64, which
> never had a BIOS, of course.
>
You're forgetting PXE.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-25 5:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-26 21:19 [PATCH 1/1] Fix boot on efi 32 bit Machines [try #4] Edgar Hucek
2006-06-26 21:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-27 6:15 ` Edgar Hucek
2006-06-27 6:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-28 22:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-07-02 17:39 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-02 17:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-07-02 18:26 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-02 18:46 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-05 9:38 ` Edgar Hucek
2006-07-05 15:52 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-13 21:46 ` Edgar Hucek
2006-07-13 22:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-14 4:23 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-14 6:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-07-14 6:20 ` Edgar Hucek
2006-07-14 16:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-16 8:55 ` [PATCH 1/1] Add efi e820 memory mapping on x86 [try #1] Edgar Hucek
2006-07-25 4:29 ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-25 5:17 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-25 5:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-25 5:34 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2006-07-25 5:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-25 6:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-07-25 6:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-16 9:00 ` [PATCH 1/1] Add force of use MMCONFIG " Edgar Hucek
2006-07-25 4:33 ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-25 5:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-26 15:05 ` Andi Kleen
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