Re: [PATCH 1/1] ibft, x86: Change reserve_ibft_region() to find_ibft_region()

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From: Linus Torvalds

Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] ibft, x86: Change reserve_ibft_region() to find_ibft_region()

Date: Thursday, April 8, 2010 - 8:53 am

On Thu, 8 Apr 2010, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
quoted text>
> 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..

		Linus
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[GIT PULL IBFT] iBFT update for 2.6.34-rc3, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk, (Thu Apr 8, 8:52 am)

[PATCH 1/1] ibft, x86: Change reserve_ibft_region() to fin ..., Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk, (Thu Apr 8, 8:52 am)

Re: [PATCH 1/1] ibft, x86: Change reserve_ibft_region() to ..., Linus Torvalds, (Thu Apr 8, 8:53 am)

Re: [LKML] Re: [PATCH 1/1] ibft, x86: Change reserve_ibft_ ..., Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk, (Thu Apr 8, 9:12 am)

Re: [LKML] Re: [PATCH 1/1] ibft, x86: Change reserve_ibft_ ..., Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk, (Thu Apr 8, 10:14 am)

Re: [LKML] Re: [PATCH 1/1] ibft, x86: Change reserve_ibft_ ..., Linus Torvalds, (Thu Apr 8, 10:28 am)

Re: [LKML] Re: [PATCH 1/1] ibft, x86: Change reserve_ibft_ ..., Peter Jones, (Thu Apr 8, 10:37 am)

Re: [LKML] Re: [PATCH 1/1] ibft, x86: Change reserve_ibft_ ..., Yinghai, (Thu Apr 8, 10:53 am)


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