linux-kernel - Re: early_res and find_e820

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Message-ID: <20080304103448.GC17621@elte.hu>
Date:	Tue, 4 Mar 2008 11:34:48 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: early_res and find_e820_area for i386?


* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:

>> BTW: Why not merge e820_32.c and e820_64.c? At least part of them.
>
> What we *should* do, on both i386 and x86-64, is to create a synthetic 
> e820 table of any non-e820 information, and then yes, we should merge 
> the code.
>
> In other words, we should have an e820 table which reflects what the 
> kernel considers true about the memory space.

i'd strongly support the moving of this from the realm of talk into the 
realm of code! :-)

	Ingo
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