From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>,
Chandramouli Narayanan <mouli@linux.intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm -v3 1/2] i386/x86_64 boot: setup data
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:56:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46F5735C.5040803@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46F53848.3030100@goop.org>
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>
> Do you actually need a linked list of data? This is similar to the
> changes to bzImage to support booting bzImage a paravirt environment,
> but I just proposed a pointer to a single info structure, along with a
> field to identify the boot environment (ie, native/lguest/xen etc). It
> would be easy to extend this to handle EFI as just another boot
> environment, and you could hang a list of structures off the pointer.
>
*He* doesn't, but *we* do. We have already run into at least one case
where the existing structure is insufficient (EDD overhaul), and so we
need to do something extensible.
-hpa
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-22 19:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-19 8:58 [PATCH -mm -v3 1/2] i386/x86_64 boot: setup data Huang, Ying
2007-09-19 16:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-09-27 6:06 ` Huang, Ying
2007-09-28 22:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-09-22 15:44 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-09-22 19:56 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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