From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757847AbYAWRjG (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:39:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756482AbYAWRil (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:38:41 -0500 Received: from relay1.sgi.com ([192.48.171.29]:48331 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756250AbYAWRij (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:38:39 -0500 Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:38:42 -0600 From: Paul Jackson To: "Huang, Ying" Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, hpa@zytor.com, ak@suse.de, adaplas@pol.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Could you please merge the x86_64 EFI boot support patchset? Message-Id: <20080123113842.a6177cb5.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <1201075675.4945.44.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com> References: <1194831950.17223.44.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com> <20080123010051.969d21fd.pj@sgi.com> <1201073166.4945.41.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com> <20080123014653.6261020c.pj@sgi.com> <1201075675.4945.44.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.12.0; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ying Huang wrote: > > Are you optimistic that some variation of H. Peter Anvin's "struct > > setup_data" mechanism will make it into 2.6.25 or thereabouts? > > I think it may be merged into 2.6.26. That (2.6.26) is just barely within the schedule SGI needs. I hope the chances of making it by then are good. I'm no expert in this area, but I'll do what little I can to help review and test. Good luck ;). -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.940.382.4214