From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, tglx@linutronix.de, steiner@sgi.com,
travis@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
andi@firstfloor.org, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/10] x86 boot: add code to add BIOS provided EFI memory entries to kernel
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 12:16:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <483C5DF4.60508@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080527140848.ce57845b.pj@sgi.com>
Paul Jackson wrote:
>
> But I reply mine is better, because we can already provide, with the
> current EFI interfaces, all the entries from the boot loader to the
> kernel, so we do not need to provide them twice, a second time via an
> E820 map mechanism that must be revised and extended to handle the
> additional memory map entries past the first 128 of them.
>
This was discussed over a year ago, and it was declared the boot
loaders' responsibility. Please go back and look at the archives for
the discussion rather than rehashing it at this time.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-27 19:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-14 15:15 [PATCH 1/10] x86 boot: include missing smp.h header Paul Jackson
2008-05-14 15:15 ` [PATCH 2/10] x86 boot: remove some unused extern function declarations Paul Jackson
2008-05-14 15:15 ` [PATCH 3/10] x86 boot: add header comment to dmi.h stating what it is Paul Jackson
2008-05-14 15:15 ` [PATCH 4/10] x86 boot: simplify pageblock_bits enum declaration Paul Jackson
2008-05-14 15:15 ` [PATCH 5/10] x86 boot: minor code format fixes in e820 and efi routines Paul Jackson
2008-05-14 15:15 ` [PATCH 6/10] x86 boot: proper use of ARRAY_SIZE instead of repeated E820MAX constant Paul Jackson
2008-05-14 15:15 ` [PATCH 7/10] x86 boot: extend some internal memory map arrays to handle larger EFI input Paul Jackson
2008-05-14 15:15 ` [PATCH 8/10] x86 boot: change sanitize_e820_map parameter from byte to int to allow bigger memory maps Paul Jackson
2008-05-14 15:15 ` [PATCH 9/10] x86 boot: longer comment explaining sanitize_e820_map routine Paul Jackson
2008-05-14 15:15 ` [PATCH 10/10] x86 boot: add code to add BIOS provided EFI memory entries to kernel Paul Jackson
2008-05-16 0:03 ` Paul Jackson
2008-05-16 12:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-16 16:30 ` Paul Jackson
2008-05-18 6:49 ` Paul Jackson
2008-05-19 16:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-27 3:12 ` Huang, Ying
2008-05-27 19:08 ` Paul Jackson
2008-05-27 19:16 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-05-28 9:59 ` Paul Jackson
2008-05-16 13:20 ` [PATCH 1/10] x86 boot: include missing smp.h header Mike Travis
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