From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758531AbYE0TQy (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2008 15:16:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756017AbYE0TQo (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2008 15:16:44 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:38810 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755728AbYE0TQo (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2008 15:16:44 -0400 Message-ID: <483C5DF4.60508@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 12:16:04 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Jackson CC: "Huang, Ying" , 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 References: <20080514151504.148486.32236.sendpatchset@jackhammer.engr.sgi.com> <20080514151558.148486.91282.sendpatchset@jackhammer.engr.sgi.com> <1211857948.12819.84.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com> <20080527140848.ce57845b.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20080527140848.ce57845b.pj@sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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