From: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Updated /proc/iomem patch
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 16:46:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200509151046.26715.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1126716323.29344.55.camel@lyra.fc.hp.com>
On Thursday 15 September 2005 10:26 am, Khalid Aziz wrote:
> I am not sure if marking the memory allocated by bootloader for kernel,
> inital ramdisk, EFI memory map and boot parameters as "reserved"
> in /proc/iomem is the right thing to do. I have done it this way in the
> patch but I would appreciate other opinions.
I'm curious about how kexec-tools uses the information from iomem.
It tells you about physical address space, and you can't do much
with physical addresses from user-space. I suppose it's obvious
from the kexec-tools source -- do you have a pointer?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-15 16:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-14 16:45 [PATCH] Updated /proc/iomem patch Khalid Aziz
2005-09-14 18:32 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2005-09-15 16:26 ` Khalid Aziz
2005-09-15 16:46 ` Bjorn Helgaas [this message]
2005-09-15 17:27 ` Khalid Aziz
2005-09-16 15:26 ` Khalid Aziz
2005-09-16 21:02 ` Luck, Tony
2005-09-28 21:31 ` Khalid Aziz
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