From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: early_res and find_e820_area for i386?
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:31:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47CD7962.5080500@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080304104853.GA19022@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> i disagree, the early_res stuff is still quite unclean, and what we want
> do do is to get rid of it, not promote it into 32-bit code ... (The
> reason we merged the early_res stuff in 2.6.25 was because it was
> certainly cleaner than the horrible open-coded reservations that the
> 64-bit code did before. So now we at least have a more less visible
> enumeration of reservations.)
>
> The correct and clean clean solution is what hpa mentioned: to do
> reservations in the e820 space. I think hpa has some code for that
> already and we should merge that. Peter?
>
I do have some code for this stuff, but it's not merge-ready... I'll try
to hammer it into shape.
-hpa
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-04 16:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-04 3:38 early_res and find_e820_area for i386? Huang, Ying
2008-03-04 4:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-04 10:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-04 10:41 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-04 10:48 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-04 11:46 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-04 16:31 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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