From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932468AbWGYFeW (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jul 2006 01:34:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932473AbWGYFeW (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jul 2006 01:34:22 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:25580 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932468AbWGYFeW (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jul 2006 01:34:22 -0400 Message-ID: <44C5AD50.1020305@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 22:34:08 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060614) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Andrew Morton , Edgar Hucek , ebiederm@xmission.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Add efi e820 memory mapping on x86 [try #1] References: <44A04F5F.8030405@ed-soft.at> <44A0CCEA.7030309@ed-soft.at> <44A304C1.2050304@zytor.com> <44A8058D.3030905@zytor.com> <44AB8878.7010203@ed-soft.at> <44B6BF2F.6030401@ed-soft.at> <44B73791.9080601@ed-soft.at> <44B9FF02.3020600@ed-soft.at> <20060724212911.32dd3bc0.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Post: Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: >>> This Patch add an efi e820 memory mapping. >>> >> Why? > > EFI is this other Intel brain-damage (the first one being ACPI). It's > totally different from a normal BIOS, and was brought on by ia64, which > never had a BIOS, of course. > You're forgetting PXE. -hpa