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

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Message-ID: <44C5B981.2050909@zytor.com>
Date:	Mon, 24 Jul 2006 23:26:09 -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, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> You're forgetting PXE.
> 
> I don't think I'm forgetting it as much as just repressing it. I don't 
> think it actually affects the kernel, does it? I assume the only reason 
> you care is that it might affect a bootloader?
> 

Well, one could write an UNDI (PXE) network driver for Linux.  Whether 
or not one would want to is another matter...

It obviously affects the bootloader.

	-hpa
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