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From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: Sourav Sen <souravs@india.hp.com>
Cc: "'Greg KH'" <greg@kroah.com>,
	Matt_Domsch@dell.com,
	Matthew E Tolentino <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com>,
	linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [2.6.6 PATCH] Exposing EFI memory map
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 08:42:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1084290121.1091.62.camel@nighthawk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00b201c43766$7646a670$39624c0f@india.hp.com>

On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 07:44, Sourav Sen wrote:
> + I think you should address the other issues in this thread before
> + worrying about the sysfs interface (why have this at all, incorrect
> + data for hotplug mem, etc.)
> + 
> 	I did not hear whether the idea of updating efi memory map on a 
> hotplug is good or bad. In any case, can somebody tell me to how do 
> I get the available physical range map (only the ranges that VM is 
> using at a given point in time) from userland. I believe I outlined 
> a legitimate requirement earlier in this thread :-)

Let me paraphrase: exporting generic information in an architecture or
firmware-specific way in sysfs is bad.

I apologize, but I think I missed yout legitimate requirements earlier
in the thread.  Could you briefly remind me?

-- Dave


  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-11 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-06  8:52 [2.6.6 PATCH] Exposing EFI memory map Sourav Sen
2004-05-06 10:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-05-06 11:59   ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-05-06 12:18     ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-06 13:27       ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-05-06 14:00         ` Dave Hansen
2004-05-06 14:09           ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-06 14:09     ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-05-06 12:46 ` Matt Domsch
2004-05-06 13:20   ` Sourav Sen
2004-05-06 15:08     ` Bjorn Helgaas
2004-05-06 16:25       ` Sourav Sen
2004-05-06 16:49         ` Dave Hansen
2004-05-06 16:40 ` Greg KH
2004-05-07  9:45   ` Sourav Sen
2004-05-07 21:49     ` Greg KH
2004-05-11 14:44       ` Sourav Sen
2004-05-11 15:42         ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2004-05-12 10:24           ` Sourav Sen
2004-05-12 16:15             ` Dave Hansen
2004-05-13 14:10               ` Sourav Sen
2004-05-13 15:32                 ` Dave Hansen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-05-06  9:18 Sourav Sen
2004-05-06 13:23 Luck, Tony
2004-05-06 16:14 Tolentino, Matthew E
2004-05-06 18:47 Tolentino, Matthew E
2004-05-06 18:57 ` Dave Hansen
2004-05-06 20:54 Tolentino, Matthew E

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