Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964816AbWAFSXg (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2006 13:23:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964820AbWAFSXg (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2006 13:23:36 -0500 Received: from amdext4.amd.com ([163.181.251.6]:61406 "EHLO amdext4.amd.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964816AbWAFSXf convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2006 13:23:35 -0500 X-Server-Uuid: 5FC0E2DF-CD44-48CD-883A-0ED95B391E89 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: RE: [LinuxBIOS] Inclusion of x86_64 memorize ioapic at bootup patch Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 10:22:13 -0800 Message-ID: <6F7DA19D05F3CF40B890C7CA2DB13A42030949C1@ssvlexmb2.amd.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [LinuxBIOS] Inclusion of x86_64 memorize ioapic at bootup patch Thread-Index: AcYS1h6mtQrsW0j4Qz+NKA/mqgAGuQAF7l1Q From: "Lu, Yinghai" To: "Ronald G Minnich" , "Eric W. Biederman" cc: "Andrew Morton" , discuss@x86-64.org, fastboot@lists.osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ak@muc.de, vgoyal@in.ibm.com X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Jan 2006 18:22:15.0243 (UTC) FILETIME=[1EA739B0:01C612EE] X-WSS-ID: 6FA06ADD0T02065022-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 403 Lines: 13 The patch is critical, otherwise We can use kexec with LinuxBIOS. I'm thinking we may need to use kexec and tiny kernel to support RAID5 in some MB.... YH - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/