From: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
To: Sourav Sen <souravs@india.hp.com>
Cc: matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6.6 PATCH] Exposing EFI memory map
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 07:46:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040506124649.GA13482@lists.us.dell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <003801c43347$812a1590$39624c0f@india.hp.com>
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On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 02:22:46PM +0530, Sourav Sen wrote:
> The following simple patch creates a read-only file
> "memmap" under <mount point>/firmware/efi/ in sysfs
> and exposes the efi memory map thru it.
I'm not generally opposed, but have a couple questions.
1) Why does userspace / humans need to know this? For debugging firmware?
2) Can the memory map output ever be larger than PAGE_SIZE (lower
limit is 4KB on x86)? If not, what guarantees that? If so, you need
your own read mechanism rather than the generic sysfs one.
The one-value-per-file rule has an exception for an array of values of
the same type per Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt, which this
looks to adhere to.
Thanks,
Matt
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-06 12:52 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 [this message]
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
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
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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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