linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: efi/e820 table merge fix

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Date:	Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:30:41 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Cliff Wickman <cpw@....com>
CC:	Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"mingo@...e.hu" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"yinghai@...nel.org" <yinghai@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: efi/e820 table merge fix

Cliff Wickman wrote:
> 
> Paul Jackson retired from SGI a while back.  I haven't seen him
> participating in the LKML.  But he must have been trying to assure 
> that, as Peter says, memory that isn't WB doesn't get into the usable
> pool.
> 

Actually, it's not certain; he might just (incorrectly) have thought it
was easier than looking at the memory type.  Either way, though, keeping
the check in is the conservative thing to do.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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