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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
	"sfi-devel@simplefirmware.org" <sfi-devel@simplefirmware.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] SFI: core support
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:55:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090624075531.GM6760@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090624154052.1301144f@feng-desktop>

> understand your concern, but to walk a list we still need have some global
> parameter like SYST address, and do the map/unmap and checksum work.

You just keep it mapped always. And the checksums only need to 
be checked once at the beginning. If there's a checksum error
anywhere it's better to complete disable SFI

-Andi
-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-24  7:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-23  7:13 [RFC/PATCH 2.6.32] Simple Firmware Interface (SFI): initial support Len Brown
2009-06-23  7:13 ` [PATCH 1/8] SFI: Simple Firmware Interface - new Linux sub-system Len Brown
2009-06-23  7:14   ` [PATCH 2/8] SFI: include/linux/sfi.h Len Brown
2009-06-23  7:28     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-23  7:47       ` Feng Tang
2009-06-23  8:00         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-23  8:02           ` Feng Tang
2009-06-23  8:09             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-23 15:14               ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-06-30 21:57       ` Andrew Morton
2009-06-30 21:59         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-23  9:06     ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-06-23 15:52       ` Feng Tang
2009-06-23 19:26         ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-06-23  7:14   ` [PATCH 3/8] SFI: core support Len Brown
2009-06-23  7:56     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-23  8:32       ` Feng Tang
2009-06-23  9:03         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-23  9:15           ` Feng Tang
2009-06-23 17:20       ` Len Brown
2009-06-23 19:20         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-23 12:32     ` Andi Kleen
2009-06-23 16:57       ` Len Brown
2009-06-24  3:34       ` Feng Tang
2009-06-24  7:12         ` Andi Kleen
2009-06-24  7:40           ` Feng Tang
2009-06-24  7:55             ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2009-06-23  7:14   ` [PATCH 4/8] SFI: Hook boot-time initialization Len Brown
2009-06-23  7:14   ` [PATCH 5/8] SFI: Hook e820 memory map initialization Len Brown
2009-06-23  7:14   ` [PATCH 6/8] SFI: add ACPI extensions Len Brown
2009-06-23 12:18     ` Andi Kleen
2009-06-23 16:51       ` Len Brown
2009-06-23  7:14   ` [PATCH 7/8] SFI, PCI: Hook MMCONFIG Len Brown
2009-06-23  7:14   ` [PATCH 8/8] SFI: expose IO-APIC routines to SFI, not just ACPI Len Brown
2009-06-23  7:58     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-23  7:23   ` [PATCH 1/8] SFI: Simple Firmware Interface - new Linux sub-system Ingo Molnar
2009-06-23 18:31 ` [RFC/PATCH 2.6.32] Simple Firmware Interface (SFI): initial support Matthew Garrett
2009-06-23 18:41   ` Len Brown
2009-06-22 19:43     ` Pavel Machek
2009-06-24 21:13       ` Len Brown
2009-07-11 22:02         ` Pavel Machek
2009-07-13  3:25           ` [SFI-devel] " Peter Stuge
2009-06-23 18:51     ` Matthew Garrett
2009-06-23 20:00       ` Len Brown
2009-06-23 20:23         ` Matthew Garrett
2009-06-23 20:45           ` Matthew Garrett
2009-06-23 21:23             ` Alan Cox
2009-06-23 22:34               ` Len Brown
2009-06-23 22:20             ` Len Brown
2009-06-23 22:56               ` Matthew Garrett
2009-06-23 23:00               ` [SFI-devel] " Justen, Jordan L
2009-06-24  0:35                 ` Len Brown
2009-06-23 21:33           ` Len Brown

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