Re: early_res and find_e820_area for i386?

Ingo Molnar
2008-03-04T10:35:22Z

* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:

>> BTW: Why not merge e820_32.c and e820_64.c? At least part of them.
>
> What we *should* do, on both i386 and x86-64, is to create a synthetic
> e820 table of any non-e820 information, and then yes, we should merge
> the code.
>
> In other words, we should have an e820 table which reflects what the
> kernel considers true about the memory space.

i'd strongly support the moving of this from the realm of talk into the
realm of code! :-)

Ingo