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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>,
	andi@firstfloor.org, mingo@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 2/4] x86_64 boot: Add linked list of struct setup_data
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:06:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47EE7704.9030301@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080329012423.0c1d693e.pj@sgi.com>

Paul Jackson wrote:
> Huang wrote:
>> The setup_data will not only be used for E820 extension.
> 
> I'm still unsure of your meaning.
> 
> Are you saying that 'setup_data' is not used in your current patch set?
> 
> Are you also saying that 'setup_data' will be used in the future?
> 

They will be used for other things in the future.  EDD extension is one 
we already know about -- the current EDD code doesn't carry as much 
information as we want.

	-hpa

      reply	other threads:[~2008-03-29 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-27  7:09 [PATCH -mm 2/4] x86_64 boot: Add linked list of struct setup_data Huang, Ying
2008-03-27 11:25 ` Paul Jackson
2008-03-28  2:08   ` Huang, Ying
2008-03-29  6:20     ` Paul Jackson
2008-03-27 11:33 ` Paul Jackson
2008-03-28  2:09   ` Huang, Ying
2008-03-29  6:24     ` Paul Jackson
2008-03-29 17:06       ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]

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