linux-kernel - Re: [2.6.27] overlapping early reservations [was: early exception

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Date:	Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:26:07 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	7eggert@....de
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@...il.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [2.6.27] overlapping early reservations [was: early exception
 	- lockdep related?]

Bodo Eggert wrote:
> 
> I don't think ignoring an intrd will be as serious, but having a panic (and
> a timeout) is preferable to starting the wrong configuration.
> 

Most of the time, ignoring the initrd would result in a panic anyway, 
and arguably the times it wouldn't, it's going to do something wrong.

	-hpa
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