Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934152AbXHJSIr (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:08:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753381AbXHJSIi (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:08:38 -0400 Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.128.187]:27879 "EHLO fk-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752697AbXHJSIh (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:08:37 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=cBUsCUKx4oM9K3vdYyegrrPVFGGZC9CBzKG5/gd7Km0loZS/x4tR8XpeVShqn+h93hsTwDUrdV6aKClhFeb5dclvyj7ZFWAAjwZygMIjnGhTec+eR7bc3WTAzXuPRqWayMHXuo/OJii4wz7zdHwd4gO+L1l6toj26IL99g8MLNs= Message-ID: <5d6222a80708101108y62ebfa26n9f47bfc52b48f4a8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:08:35 -0300 From: "Glauber de Oliveira Costa" To: "Alan Cox" Subject: Re: [PATCH 23/25] [PATCH] paravirt hooks for arch initialization Cc: "Jeremy Fitzhardinge" , lguest@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, chrisw@sous-sol.org, anthony@codemonkey.ws, Steven@smtp2.linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Glauber de Oliveira Costa" , virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, mingo@elte.hu In-Reply-To: <20070809190303.214e5457@the-village.bc.nu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <11865467522495-git-send-email-gcosta@redhat.com> <11865468394005-git-send-email-gcosta@redhat.com> <11865468431616-git-send-email-gcosta@redhat.com> <200708081144.04119.ak@suse.de> <46BB5258.8040609@goop.org> <20070809190303.214e5457@the-village.bc.nu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 740 Lines: 20 On 8/9/07, Alan Cox wrote: > > What's the EBDA actually used for? The only place which seems to use > > ebda_addr is in the e820 code to avoid that area as RAM. > > It belongs to the firmware. Wouldn't it be better, then, to just skip this step unconditionally if we are running a paravirtualized guest? What do we from doing it? -- Glauber de Oliveira Costa. "Free as in Freedom" http://glommer.net "The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act." - 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/