From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760683AbXIQJJo (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Sep 2007 05:09:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753987AbXIQIke (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Sep 2007 04:40:34 -0400 Received: from mx1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:53763 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755490AbXIQIkd (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Sep 2007 04:40:33 -0400 From: Andi Kleen Organization: SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Nuernberg, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) To: "Huang, Ying" Subject: Re: [RFC -mm 0/2] i386/x86_64 boot: 32-bit boot protocol Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:40:26 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , "Eric W. Biederman" , akpm@linux-foundation.org, Yinghai Lu , Chandramouli Narayanan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1190017572.5866.20.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <1190017572.5866.20.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200709171040.27043.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 17 September 2007 10:26:12 Huang, Ying wrote: > For machine with some new BIOS other than legacy BIOS, such as EFI, > LinuxBIOS, etc, and kexec, the 16-bit real mode setup code in kernel > based on legacy BIOS can not be used, so a 32-bit boot protocol need > to be defined. The patch doesn't seem to be what you advertise in the description. Can you start with a patch that just implements the new boot protocol parsing for better review? The EFI code should be all in separate patches. -Andi