From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759181AbYC0Js1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:48:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754060AbYC0JsT (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:48:19 -0400 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:58946 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751065AbYC0JsS (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:48:18 -0400 Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:47:59 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: "Huang, Ying" Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , andi@firstfloor.org, mingo@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de, Paul Jackson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 0/4] x86_64 boot: Add linked listof struct setup_data to boot protocol Message-ID: <20080327094759.GB5056@elte.hu> References: <1206601743.3067.20.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com> <20080327083221.GD15626@elte.hu> <1206609936.13404.0.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1206609936.13404.0.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Huang, Ying wrote: > > could you try to do that nevertheless? We generally prefer feature > > patches after sensible unification has been done. > > I try to port reserve_early() to i386 before. But it is said that the > reserve_early() should be replaced by e820 based early > reservation/allocation mechanism on i386 and x86_64. So I think I > should wait for it. correct, e820 space manipulations is how it should be done. Peter, any progress on that project? Ingo