linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 10/10] x86 boot: add code to add BIOS provided EFI memory entries to kernel

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Date:	Tue, 27 May 2008 12:16:04 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Paul Jackson <pj@....com>
CC:	"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	tglx@...utronix.de, steiner@....com, travis@....com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, andi@...stfloor.org, mingo@...e.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/10] x86 boot: add code to add BIOS provided EFI memory
 entries to kernel

Paul Jackson wrote:
> 
> But I reply mine is better, because we can already provide, with the
> current EFI interfaces, all the entries from the boot loader to the
> kernel, so we do not need to provide them twice, a second time via an
> E820 map mechanism that must be revised and extended to handle the
> additional memory map entries past the first 128 of them.
> 

This was discussed over a year ago, and it was declared the boot 
loaders' responsibility.  Please go back and look at the archives for 
the discussion rather than rehashing it at this time.

	-hpa
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