From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@kernel.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>,
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] ibft, x86: Change reserve_ibft_region() to find_ibft_region()
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 08:53:48 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1004080852200.3558@i5.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1270741936-1306-2-git-send-email-konrad@kernel.org>
On Thu, 8 Apr 2010, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>
> So arch code could decide the way to reserve the ibft.
>
> And We should reserve ibft as early as possible, instead of BOOTMEM stage,
> in case the table is in RAM range and is not reserved by BIOS.
For all I know this is all perfectly fine, but I have _no_ idea about how
ibft is supposed to work, so I can't really judge it. As a result, I won't
pull it without some more acks from people who actually know what that
thing is..
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-08 15:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-08 15:52 [GIT PULL IBFT] iBFT update for 2.6.34-rc3 Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-04-08 15:52 ` [PATCH 1/1] ibft, x86: Change reserve_ibft_region() to find_ibft_region() Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-04-08 15:53 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2010-04-08 16:12 ` [LKML] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-04-08 17:14 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-04-08 17:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-04-08 17:37 ` Peter Jones
2010-04-08 17:53 ` Yinghai
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