Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758818Ab0DHP6K (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Apr 2010 11:58:10 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:49731 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758637Ab0DHP6F (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Apr 2010 11:58:05 -0400 Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 08:53:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Yinghai Lu , Pekka Enberg , Peter Jones , Jan Beulich , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] ibft, x86: Change reserve_ibft_region() to find_ibft_region() In-Reply-To: <1270741936-1306-2-git-send-email-konrad@kernel.org> Message-ID: References: <1270741936-1306-1-git-send-email-konrad@kernel.org> <1270741936-1306-2-git-send-email-konrad@kernel.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) 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: 744 Lines: 20 On Thu, 8 Apr 2010, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > > So arch code could decide the way to reserve the ibft. > > And We should reserve ibft as early as possible, instead of BOOTMEM stage, > in case the table is in RAM range and is not reserved by BIOS. For all I know this is all perfectly fine, but I have _no_ idea about how ibft is supposed to work, so I can't really judge it. As a result, I won't pull it without some more acks from people who actually know what that thing is.. 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/