Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755118Ab0LOTWe (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:22:34 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:36165 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754944Ab0LOTWc convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:22:32 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <201012151118.30512.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> References: <20101208213606.13026.47657.stgit@bob.kio> <20101215062650.GB2728@helgaas.com> <201012151118.30512.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:21:42 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] PNP: HP nx6325 fixup: reserve unreported resources To: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: Jesse Barnes , Len Brown , linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Adam Belay Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 710 Lines: 18 On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > So here's my proposal for .37: > ?- Keep the current state of _CRS enabled by default (for 2008 > ? ?and newer machines). > ?- Allocate bottom-up always > ?- Avoid E820 reservations Sounds sane to me. And yes, the fact that the BIOS tends to allocate things top-down probably does mean that the whole bottom-up approach tends to be the safer model. 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/