linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/8] x86, acpi: Move acpi_initrd

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Message-ID: <20130821130647.GB19286@mtj.dyndns.org>
Date:	Wed, 21 Aug 2013 09:06:47 -0400
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Tang Chen <tangchen@...fujitsu.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] x86, acpi: Move acpi_initrd_override() earlier.

Hello,

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 06:15:35PM +0800, Tang Chen wrote:
> [What are we doing]
> 
> We are trying to initialize acip tables as early as possible. But Linux kernel
> allows users to override acpi tables by specifying their own tables in initrd.
> So we have to do acpi_initrd_override() earlier first.

So, are we now back to making SRAT info as early as possible?  What
happened to just co-locating early allocations close to kernel image?
What'd be the benefit of doing this over that?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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