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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"mingo@elte.hu" <mingo@elte.hu>,
	"yinghai@kernel.org" <yinghai@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: efi/e820 table merge fix
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:30:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A393651.2090400@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090617145831.GA725@sgi.com>

Cliff Wickman wrote:
> 
> Paul Jackson retired from SGI a while back.  I haven't seen him
> participating in the LKML.  But he must have been trying to assure 
> that, as Peter says, memory that isn't WB doesn't get into the usable
> pool.
> 

Actually, it's not certain; he might just (incorrectly) have thought it
was easier than looking at the memory type.  Either way, though, keeping
the check in is the conservative thing to do.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-06-17 18:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-16 21:43 [PATCH] x86: efi/e820 table merge fix Cliff Wickman
2009-06-17  1:10 ` Huang Ying
2009-06-17  1:38   ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-06-17  1:44     ` Huang Ying
2009-06-17  4:03       ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-06-17  5:08         ` Huang Ying
2009-06-17 14:58           ` Cliff Wickman
2009-06-17 18:28             ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-06-17 18:30             ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]

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