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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] export e820 table on x86
Date: 21 Nov 2002 23:20:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1bs4iyvla.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211211556340.5779-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:
> 
> In other words, I would suggest you fix that 64-bit issue, remove the
> artificial limiting in setup.c, extend the "case" statement to cover any
> cases you're interested in, and test it on something with >4GB of memory
> to see that it works, and I'll be more than happy to take it.

Sounds like a plan.  If Dave doesn't get to it I will take a look, at
it.  It's a nice clean way of getting the information out of the
kernel, and it is already there.

Eric


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-11-22  6:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-21  2:00 [PATCH] export e820 table on x86 Dave Hansen
2002-11-21  2:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-11-21 21:01   ` Dave Hansen
2002-11-21 22:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-21 23:46   ` Dave Hansen
2002-11-22  0:04     ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-22  0:53       ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-11-22  6:20       ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2002-11-22  7:50       ` Dave Hansen
2002-11-22  8:00         ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-22 17:17           ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-11-22 22:37             ` Dave Hansen

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