From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753776AbYC1Iuz (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:50:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752324AbYC1Iur (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:50:47 -0400 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:60815 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750911AbYC1Iuq (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:50:46 -0400 Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:50:15 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: "Huang, Ying" Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , andi@firstfloor.org, mingo@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de, Paul Jackson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] x86_64 boot -v2: Add linked listof struct setup_data to boot protocol Message-ID: <20080328085015.GA21413@elte.hu> References: <1206672578.13404.21.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1206672578.13404.21.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Huang, Ying wrote: > This patchset adds the linked list of struct setup_data to boot > protocol. This is needed by EDD information and some SGI machine with > E820 entry number > 128. > > Now, only the x86_64 is supported. The i386 can be supported after > early reservation mechanism for x86 is available. > > This patchset is based x86.git latest branch and has been tested on > Intel x86_64 machine. thanks, applied. Note: as i mentioned, this code needs to be unified, and we can only merge this upstream into 2.6.26 once 32-bit support has been added too. The last thing we need is 64-bit only boot protocol extensions. Ingo