From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"mingo@elte.hu" <mingo@elte.hu>,
"yinghai@kernel.org" <yinghai@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: efi/e820 table merge fix
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:30:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A393651.2090400@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090617145831.GA725@sgi.com>
Cliff Wickman wrote:
>
> Paul Jackson retired from SGI a while back. I haven't seen him
> participating in the LKML. But he must have been trying to assure
> that, as Peter says, memory that isn't WB doesn't get into the usable
> pool.
>
Actually, it's not certain; he might just (incorrectly) have thought it
was easier than looking at the memory type. Either way, though, keeping
the check in is the conservative thing to do.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-17 18:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-16 21:43 [PATCH] x86: efi/e820 table merge fix Cliff Wickman
2009-06-17 1:10 ` Huang Ying
2009-06-17 1:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-06-17 1:44 ` Huang Ying
2009-06-17 4:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-06-17 5:08 ` Huang Ying
2009-06-17 14:58 ` Cliff Wickman
2009-06-17 18:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-06-17 18:30 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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