From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 21:02:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 21:02:51 -0500 Received: from carisma.slowglass.com ([195.224.96.167]:11278 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 21:02:51 -0500 Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 02:09:53 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Dave Hansen Cc: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] export e820 table on x86 Message-ID: <20021121020953.A13644@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Dave Hansen , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <3DDC3E43.2080302@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3DDC3E43.2080302@us.ibm.com>; from haveblue@us.ibm.com on Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 06:00:35PM -0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 06:00:35PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote: > I stole a patch that Arjan did a while ago, and ported it up to 2.5: > http://www.kernelnewbies.org/kernels/rh80/SOURCES/linux-2.4.0-e820.patch > > We need this so avoid making BIOS calls when using kexec. It should at least use seq_file, and I'm not sure whether it wouldn't better fit into sysfs (don't ask me where exactly :))