Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755452AbYFTTs3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:48:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751695AbYFTTsW (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:48:22 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:35794 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751607AbYFTTsV (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:48:21 -0400 Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:42:00 -0400 From: Vivek Goyal To: Bernhard Walle Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Introduce userspace interface for Firmware-provided memory map Message-ID: <20080620194200.GC21235@redhat.com> References: <1213977420-1555-1-git-send-email-bwalle@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1213977420-1555-1-git-send-email-bwalle@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 619 Lines: 16 On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 05:56:57PM +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote: > This patch (as request for comments) introduces a new userspace interface > /proc/firmware_mem that provides the unfiltered view of the BIOS on > memory configuration. That's usable for two reasons: > How about /proc/firmware_memmap. This is little longish but probably more clear in intent. Thanks Vivek -- 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/