From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756954AbYC2GYe (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:24:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751435AbYC2GY1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:24:27 -0400 Received: from relay2.sgi.com ([192.48.171.30]:51562 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751379AbYC2GY1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:24:27 -0400 Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:24:23 -0500 From: Paul Jackson To: "Huang, Ying" Cc: hpa@zytor.com, andi@firstfloor.org, mingo@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 2/4] x86_64 boot: Add linked list of struct setup_data Message-Id: <20080329012423.0c1d693e.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <1206670181.13404.7.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com> References: <1206601748.3067.22.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com> <20080327063307.ac323913.pj@sgi.com> <1206670181.13404.7.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 Huang wrote: > The setup_data will not only be used for E820 extension. I'm still unsure of your meaning. Are you saying that 'setup_data' is not used in your current patch set? Are you also saying that 'setup_data' will be used in the future? > So a type field is used to distinguish various setup_data. What various types of 'setup_data' will be distinguished? -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.940.382.4214