linux-kernel - Re: [LKML] Re: [PATCH 1/1] ibft, x86: Change reserve_ibft_region() to find_ibft

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Message-ID: <20100408161210.GA13382@phenom.dumpdata.com>
Date:	Thu, 8 Apr 2010 12:12:10 -0400
From:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Peter Jones <pjones@...hat.com>,
	Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...ell.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [LKML] Re: [PATCH 1/1] ibft, x86: Change reserve_ibft_region()
	to find_ibft_region()

On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 08:53:48AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 8 Apr 2010, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> >
> > So arch code could decide the way to reserve the ibft.
> > 
> > And We should reserve ibft as early as possible, instead of BOOTMEM stage,
> > in case the table is in RAM range and is not reserved by BIOS.
> 
> For all I know this is all perfectly fine, but I have _no_ idea about how 
> ibft is supposed to work, so I can't really judge it. As a result, I won't 
> pull it without some more acks from people who actually know what that 
> thing is..

Oh, I am definitely ACK-ing. Sorry about not explicitly stating that.
The developer is Yinghai Lu, I am the co-maintainer of the iBFT driver.

Linus, would you like me to modify the commit so that it has 'Acked-by:'
by me in the git tree?
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