Re: early_res and find_e820_area for i386?

H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-04T16:38:41Z

Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> i disagree, the early_res stuff is still quite unclean, and what we want
> do do is to get rid of it, not promote it into 32-bit code ... (The
> reason we merged the early_res stuff in 2.6.25 was because it was
> certainly cleaner than the horrible open-coded reservations that the
> 64-bit code did before. So now we at least have a more less visible
> enumeration of reservations.)
>
> The correct and clean clean solution is what hpa mentioned: to do
> reservations in the e820 space. I think hpa has some code for that
> already and we should merge that. Peter?
>

I do have some code for this stuff, but it's not merge-ready... I'll try
to hammer it into shape.

-hpa