linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] x86_64 boot -v2: Add linked listof struct setup

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Date:	Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:50:15 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, andi@...stfloor.org,
	mingo@...hat.com, tglx@...utronix.de, Paul Jackson <pj@....com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] x86_64 boot -v2: Add linked listof struct
	setup_data to boot protocol


* Huang, Ying <ying.huang@...el.com> wrote:

> This patchset adds the linked list of struct setup_data to boot 
> protocol. This is needed by EDD information and some SGI machine with 
> E820 entry number > 128.
> 
> Now, only the x86_64 is supported. The i386 can be supported after 
> early reservation mechanism for x86 is available.
> 
> This patchset is based x86.git latest branch and has been tested on 
> Intel x86_64 machine.

thanks, applied. Note: as i mentioned, this code needs to be unified, 
and we can only merge this upstream into 2.6.26 once 32-bit support has 
been added too. The last thing we need is 64-bit only boot protocol 
extensions.

	Ingo
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