linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: make 64bit efi to use ioremap_cache for efi

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Date:	Sat, 4 Oct 2008 10:46:44 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: make 64bit efi to use ioremap_cache for
	efi_ioremap


* Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com> wrote:

> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
> 
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/efi.c       |    5 +----
>  arch/x86/kernel/efi_64.c    |   27 ++-------------------------
>  include/asm-x86/efi.h       |    8 ++------
>  include/asm-x86/fixmap_64.h |    3 ---
>  4 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)

ok, that looks like a very nice cleanup and should make the EFI mapping 
code more generic and more robust as well.

Huang, any chance you could test this against latest tip/master on a 
real EFI system?

	Ingo
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