Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758497Ab0FBQYb (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2010 12:24:31 -0400 Received: from smtp-out.google.com ([74.125.121.35]:13776 "EHLO smtp-out.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758188Ab0FBQYa convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2010 12:24:30 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=beta; d=google.com; c=nofws; q=dns; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date: x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:x-system-of-record; b=wVQZPk87vL9BYx6zN88EzMcO5Vx++3ZGwtyYJUHJ1tOuuUFimKgF1qXAlk56YKKrp FTq3dV4BmIs41/xCbsvqA== MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4C068355.9070000@zytor.com> References: <20100602151602.GA3656@google.com> <4C068355.9070000@zytor.com> From: Bill Richardson Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 09:24:04 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: Nzj7ubqp6CjbE7th8p9LBiVSuCw Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Allow empty e820 map if EFI map will be provided later. To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, x86@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, fweisbec@gmail.com, yinghai@kernel.org, pavel@ucw.cz, shane.wang@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, olofj@chromium.org, msb@chromium.org, drewry@chromium.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-System-Of-Record: true Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 851 Lines: 23 On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 9:14 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > No! ?Bloody **** hell no! Heh. Well, that answers that. > This was settled in 2007 -- it is the boot loaders duty to provide a memory map. ?The fact that we allowed a > hack in to let the kernel itself add additional ranges from EFI has proven to be an utter mistake, and this is > yet another example of it. Ah. With that hint, I've now found some of the original discussion. Sorry I missed it before. Having dealt with EFI for some weeks now, I can't say I find your reaction overstated. Thanks for the quick response. Bill -- 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/