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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/3] x86/boot: Add acpitb.c to parse acpi tables
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On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 2:41 PM Chao Fan <fanc.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:
>
> Imitate the ACPI code of parsing ACPI tables to dig and read ACPI
> tables.

Why?

> Since some operations are not needed here,

What operations?

> functions are simplified. Functions will be used to dig SRAT tables to get
> information of memory, so that KASLR can the memory in immovable node.

So do you want to parse SRAT only or do something in addition to that?

> And also, these functions won't influence the initialization of
> ACPI after start_kernel().