Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756285AbZFYWBY (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:01:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751893AbZFYWBR (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:01:17 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:44139 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751514AbZFYWBQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:01:16 -0400 Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:00:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: David Woodhouse cc: FUJITA Tomonori , fenghua.yu@intel.com, chrisw@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, tony.luck@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] IA64 Compilation Error Fix for Intel IOMMU Identity Mapping Support In-Reply-To: <1245966743.30355.42.camel@macbook.infradead.org> Message-ID: References: <20090625003841.GA12226@linux-os.sc.intel.com> <20090625095643F.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> <20090625041605.GA9330@linux-os.sc.intel.com> <20090625134827W.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> <1245913886.17089.91.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <1245966743.30355.42.camel@macbook.infradead.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (LFD 1184 2008-12-16) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 772 Lines: 26 On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 08:11 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > It raises the question: Why are we using firmware-specific interfaces to > > list the available memory -- can't we get that from somewhere _generic_? > > > > The less we tie our code to these crappy BIOS, EFI and ACPI interfaces, > > the better off we'll be. > > Does this work everywhere... ? Whimper. Please pleas please please.. Pretty please, let this work (instead of duplicating the insanity). Linus -- 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/