From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 01:13:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 01:13:29 -0500 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:22106 "EHLO frodo.biederman.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 01:13:28 -0500 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Dave Hansen , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] export e820 table on x86 References: From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: 21 Nov 2002 23:20:01 -0700 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds writes: > > In other words, I would suggest you fix that 64-bit issue, remove the > artificial limiting in setup.c, extend the "case" statement to cover any > cases you're interested in, and test it on something with >4GB of memory > to see that it works, and I'll be more than happy to take it. Sounds like a plan. If Dave doesn't get to it I will take a look, at it. It's a nice clean way of getting the information out of the kernel, and it is already there. Eric