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To: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH -v7 0/3] x86 boot: 32-bit boot protocol
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Huang, Ying wrote:
> 
> Do you think it is possible that the 3rd patch of the patchset: document
> for 32 bit boot protocol can be merged into upstream firstly? It has
> been used by kexec/LinuxBIOS already and the EFI support patches depend
> on it too.
> 

Well, the part of it that doesn't document the 2.08 boot protocol, at 
least, since it documents existing practice.

	-hpa