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From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
To: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, gregkh@suse.de, kexec@lists.infradead.org,
	yhlu.kernel@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: x86: Add /sys/firmware/memmap
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:01:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080627130141.GA5801@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1214565175-21512-1-git-send-email-bwalle@suse.de>

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 01:12:53PM +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> This patch series adds a new interface /sys/firmware/memmap to export
> the BIOS (Firmware) provided memory map via sysfs for usage with
> kexec.
> 
> While the first patch adds the generic interface, the second patch
> implements that interface for E820 on x86.
> 
> Change compared to previous commit:
> 
>  1. Comments from Greg KH.
>  2. Documentation.
> 
> The patch has been tested on i386 and x86_64 with success.

This patchset looks good to me. We do need this functionality for doing
the right thing for kexec and kdump users.

Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>

Thanks
Vivek

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-06-27 13:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-27 11:12 x86: Add /sys/firmware/memmap Bernhard Walle
2008-06-27 11:12 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Bernhard Walle
2008-06-27 18:51   ` Dave Hansen
2008-06-27 20:56   ` Greg KH
2008-07-01 20:30     ` Bernhard Walle
2008-07-01 20:33       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-12  0:36   ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-12 22:15     ` firmware/memmap fixes Bernhard Walle
2008-07-12 22:15     ` [PATCH 1/2] firmware/memmap: Cleanup Bernhard Walle
2008-07-12 22:15     ` [PATCH 2/2] firmware/memmap: Move kobject initialisation before kobject_add() Bernhard Walle
2008-06-27 11:12 ` [PATCH 2/2] Use FIRMWARE_MEMMAP on x86/E820 Bernhard Walle
2008-06-27 13:01 ` Vivek Goyal [this message]
2008-06-27 18:18 ` x86: Add /sys/firmware/memmap Greg KH
2008-06-27 18:34   ` Bernhard Walle
2008-07-03 14:15     ` Ingo Molnar
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-06-26 20:19 Bernhard Walle
2008-06-26  8:14 Bernhard Walle
2008-06-25 19:57 Bernhard Walle

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