linux-kernel - Re: early_res and find_e820

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Message-ID: <47CD7962.5080500@zytor.com>
Date:	Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:31:30 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>, "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: early_res and find_e820_area for i386?

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> i disagree, the early_res stuff is still quite unclean, and what we want 
> do do is to get rid of it, not promote it into 32-bit code ... (The 
> reason we merged the early_res stuff in 2.6.25 was because it was 
> certainly cleaner than the horrible open-coded reservations that the 
> 64-bit code did before. So now we at least have a more less visible 
> enumeration of reservations.)
>  
> The correct and clean clean solution is what hpa mentioned: to do 
> reservations in the e820 space. I think hpa has some code for that 
> already and we should merge that. Peter?
> 

I do have some code for this stuff, but it's not merge-ready... I'll try 
to hammer it into shape.

	-hpa
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