linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 14/14] x86/efi: Print size in binary units in efi_print

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Message-ID: <20160209131425.GB21762@gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 9 Feb 2016 14:14:25 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Laszlo Ersek <lersek@...hat.com>
Cc:	"Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory)" <elliott@....com>,
	Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>,
	"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"linux-efi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-efi@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
	Taku Izumi <izumi.taku@...fujitsu.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/14] x86/efi: Print size in binary units in
 efi_print_memmap


* Laszlo Ersek <lersek@...hat.com> wrote:

> >> [    0.000000] efi: mem62: 0x0000001880000000-0x000000207fffffff (  32 GB) .N....BTCU "Reserved"
> 
> Sorry to disagree :), but I count myself somewhat intimate with UEFI
> (albeit more from the edk2 side), and while I can make sense of
> 
>   |NV|  |  |  |  |   |WB|WT|WC|UC]
> 
> I find
> 
>   .N....BTCU
> 
> mostly undecipherable. :)

Ok - the longer variant is fine to me as well.

Thanks,

	Ingo