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Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:18:11 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@kernel.org>
Organization: Linux Kernel Organization, Inc.
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To: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add /sys/firmware/memmap
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Vivek Goyal wrote:
>>>
>> Making this depend on KEXEC would be most unfortunate.  This is valuable  
>> information for finding all kinds of issues even in the absence of KEXEC.
>>
> 
> Agreed.
> 
>> I really don't see a point in making this configurable, except perhaps  
>> under CONFIG_EMBEDDED.
> 
> I think we should just not put this functionality under any CONFIG option.
> If we put it under CONFIG_EMBEDDED,  then even for using kexec, one
> shall have to turn CONFIG_EMBEDDED on which probably does not make much
> sense.
> 

Well, it should be *enabled* for !EMBEDDED.

	-hpa
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