From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.68 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1KCDam-0005WG-8G for kexec@lists.infradead.org; Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:02:20 +0000 Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:01:41 -0400 From: Vivek Goyal Subject: Re: x86: Add /sys/firmware/memmap Message-ID: <20080627130141.GA5801@redhat.com> References: <1214565175-21512-1-git-send-email-bwalle@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1214565175-21512-1-git-send-email-bwalle@suse.de> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: kexec-bounces@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: kexec-bounces+dwmw2=infradead.org@lists.infradead.org To: Bernhard Walle Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org, gregkh@suse.de, yhlu.kernel@gmail.com On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 01:12:53PM +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote: > This patch series adds a new interface /sys/firmware/memmap to export > the BIOS (Firmware) provided memory map via sysfs for usage with > kexec. > > While the first patch adds the generic interface, the second patch > implements that interface for E820 on x86. > > Change compared to previous commit: > > 1. Comments from Greg KH. > 2. Documentation. > > The patch has been tested on i386 and x86_64 with success. This patchset looks good to me. We do need this functionality for doing the right thing for kexec and kdump users. Acked-by: Vivek Goyal Thanks Vivek _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec