From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from smtp.citrix.com ([66.165.176.89]) by merlin.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.80.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1UPbCM-00077R-FA for kexec@lists.infradead.org; Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:15:07 +0000 Message-ID: <51643E86.7060707@citrix.com> Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 17:15:02 +0100 From: David Vrabel MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/8] x86: give FIX_EFI_MPF its own fixmap entry References: <1365447593-11988-1-git-send-email-david.vrabel@citrix.com> <1365447593-11988-2-git-send-email-david.vrabel@citrix.com> <5163DEE802000078000CB98B@nat28.tlf.novell.com> In-Reply-To: <5163DEE802000078000CB98B@nat28.tlf.novell.com> 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" Errors-To: kexec-bounces+dwmw2=twosheds.infradead.org@lists.infradead.org To: Jan Beulich Cc: "kexec@lists.infradead.org" , Daniel Kiper , Ian Jackson , Ian Campbell , "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" On 09/04/13 08:27, Jan Beulich wrote: >>>> On 08.04.13 at 20:59, David Vrabel wrote: >> FIX_EFI_MPF was the same as FIX_KEXEC_BASE_0 which is going away. So >> add its own entry. > > To be honest, no matter how small the wastage, I'd prefer reusing > another entry over creating a new one. FIX_TBOOT_MAP_ADDRESS > seems like a reasonable fit (which we also don't have to expect to > go away, unless tboot support would get ripped out altogether). > This is not the least because sane UEFI systems aren't expected to > have MPS tables anyway (i.e. the entry, if separate, would likely > _never_ be used in reality), it's just that the specification allows for > it. This patch added one entry and patch 5 removes 68 entries so this series is a big gain as is. It doesn't seem productive to further improve this at this time. David _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec