linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86, efi: print debug values in Kib not MB

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Date:	Wed, 30 Jul 2014 21:58:21 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
	Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>,
	Matt Fleming <matt@...sole-pimps.org>,
	Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, lszubowi@...hat.com,
	Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-efi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, efi: print debug values in Kib not MB

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 10:21:26AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Arguably the exactness is available in the range...

... and the size too. FWIW, other region dumps don't even print size:

[    0.000000] e820: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000000009e7ff] usable
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000000009e800-0x000000000009ffff] reserved
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000000e0000-0x00000000000fffff] reserved
...

If we do that too for UEFI, we can certainly put an end to the
bikeshedding... provided everyone is tired of it by now. :-P

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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