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Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:42:00 -0400
From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Introduce userspace interface for Firmware-provided memory map
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To: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
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On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 05:56:57PM +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> This patch (as request for comments) introduces a new userspace interface
> /proc/firmware_mem that provides the unfiltered view of the BIOS on
> memory configuration. That's usable for two reasons:
> 

How about /proc/firmware_memmap. This is little longish but probably more
clear in intent.

Thanks
Vivek

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