Paul Jackson wrote:
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> 
> But I reply mine is better, because we can already provide, with the
> current EFI interfaces, all the entries from the boot loader to the
> kernel, so we do not need to provide them twice, a second time via an
> E820 map mechanism that must be revised and extended to handle the
> additional memory map entries past the first 128 of them.
> 

This was discussed over a year ago, and it was declared the boot 
loaders' responsibility.  Please go back and look at the archives for 
the discussion rather than rehashing it at this time.

	-hpa
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