linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -v7 0/3] x86 boot: 32-bit boot protocol

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Date:	Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:04:07 +0800
From:	"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v7 0/3] x86 boot: 32-bit boot protocol

On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 15:06 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Huang, Ying wrote:
> > This patch set defines a 32-bit boot protocol for x86 platform, adds
> > an extensible boot parameter passing mechanism, export the boot
> > parameters via sysfs.
> > 
> > The patch set has been tested against kernel of git version
> > v2.6.23-6623-g55b70a0 (with Rusty's git tree pulled) on x86_64 and
> > i386.
> > 
> > This patch set is based on the proposal of Peter Anvin.
> > 
> 
> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>
> 
> This patchset should spend a cycle in -mm before being merged, though.

Do you think it is possible that the 3rd patch of the patchset: document
for 32 bit boot protocol can be merged into upstream firstly? It has
been used by kexec/LinuxBIOS already and the EFI support patches depend
on it too.

Best Regards,
Huang Ying
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