linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] Add efi e820 memory mapping on x86 [try #1]

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Message-ID: <44C5AD50.1020305@zytor.com>
Date:	Mon, 24 Jul 2006 22:34:08 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Edgar Hucek <hostmaster@...soft.at>,
	ebiederm@...ssion.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Add efi e820 memory mapping on x86 [try #1]

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>> This Patch add an efi e820 memory mapping.
>>>
>> Why?
> 
> EFI is this other Intel brain-damage (the first one being ACPI). It's 
> totally different from a normal BIOS, and was brought on by ia64, which 
> never had a BIOS, of course. 
> 

You're forgetting PXE.

	-hpa
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