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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86, efi: Delete efi_ioremap() and fix CONFIG_X86_32
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On 02/23/2012 08:47 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>
>> please check attach patch for tip/efi branch.
> 
> That doesn't do anything like what I noted above.
> 
> We should get rid of dependencies on legacy PC memory layouts, not add
> more hacks.  What is so hard about "when we create the initial mappings,
> only create for RAM/ACPI/EFI regions" (if we even need to do so for
> ACPI, I think ACPI might use ioremap() already)?
> 

Hi Yinghai,

Can you please answer my question?

	-hpa