From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ying Huang <ying.huang@intel.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: make e820_saved have update from setup_data
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:49:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <486D577B.5040705@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080703230108.1dbe68cb@kopernikus.site>
Bernhard Walle wrote:
> * Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> [2008-07-03 11:37]:
>> + /* update the e820_saved too */
>> + e820_reserve_setup_data();
>
> Why do you want to update the e820_saved here? /sys/firmware/memmap
> should provide the real BIOS-provided memory map, IMO ...
I would concur with that.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-03 22:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-03 18:35 [PATCH] x86: move saving e820_saved to setup_memory_map Yinghai Lu
2008-07-03 18:37 ` [PATCH] x86: make e820_saved have update from setup_data Yinghai Lu
2008-07-03 21:01 ` Bernhard Walle
2008-07-03 21:32 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-07-03 22:49 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-07-03 18:39 ` [PATCH] x86: let early_reserve_e820 update e820_saved too Yinghai Lu
2008-07-09 5:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-09 5:50 ` [PATCH] x86: move saving e820_saved to setup_memory_map Ingo Molnar
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