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Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:35:42 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@kernel.org>
Organization: Linux Kernel Organization, Inc.
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To: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
CC: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>, kexec@lists.infradead.org, x86@kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: Introduce userspace interface for Firmware-provided memory map
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Vivek Goyal wrote:
> 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.

Perhaps even /proc/firmware/memmap (or /sys/firmware/memmap/...).  I 
realize introducing a new directory is annoying, but it's a namespace 
that is likely to have other users.

	-hpa
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