From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: ak@suse.de, akpm@osdl.org, davej@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] let EDD work on x86-64 too
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 17:51:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040316165127.GB6145@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040316162344.GA20289@lists.us.dell.com>
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:23:44AM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote:
> Andi, I'm proposing allowing my BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive (EDD) code to
> work on x86-64 as it does on x86 today. The patch below moves some
> files around out of arch/i386/kernel and include/asm-i386 into more
> generic locations, and allows EDD to work. I've tested this against BK-current
> (from my POV it's 2.6.4 plus the edd-legacychs patch Andrew forwarded
> to Linus and is now in BK); I see there will be conflicts with the
> empty_zero_page-cleanup.patch which is in -mm right now - they're just
> comment conflicts, but I'll need to clean that up once it's in BK.
I have no problems with the x86-64 changes (assuming they work).
But I won't push the i386 changes. I would suggest you get that into
mainline first and when it's there send me a patch with just the x86-64
bits.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-16 16:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-16 16:23 Matt Domsch
2004-03-16 16:51 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-03-23 15:31 ` Matt Domsch
2004-03-23 15:36 ` Andi Kleen
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