From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751756AbWBWRaq (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:30:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751766AbWBWRap (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:30:45 -0500 Received: from [81.2.110.250] ([81.2.110.250]:7385 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751756AbWBWRap (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:30:45 -0500 Subject: Re: Patch to reorder functions in the vmlinux to a defined order From: Alan Cox To: Andi Kleen Cc: Linus Torvalds , Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, mingo@elte.hu In-Reply-To: <200602231820.50384.ak@suse.de> References: <1140700758.4672.51.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1140713001.4672.73.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <200602231820.50384.ak@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:34:11 +0000 Message-Id: <1140716051.4952.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Iau, 2006-02-23 at 18:20 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > BTW I have been also pondering some time to really trust e820 and not > forcibly reserve 640K-1MB on 64bit. That code was inherited from i386, > but probably never made too much sense Depends if you want your boot video stuff to work, and vga space, and also how the ISA hole is used, some chipsets seem to use the RAM that would be there remapped elsewhere as SMM ram. Alan