On 8/9/07, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hallo, > > I thought a bit about the zero page problem. I really would prefer to not > having it used in a boot loader right now because it's not extensible anymore > when external users start (ab)using it. > > When I asked for separate EFI->e820 functions I was really thinking > of the kernel to do the conversion; not the boot loader. > > Could you move that code into the kernel early boot code please? > e.g. on x86-64 it could be in head64.c. It could stuff the result > into the zero page to pass it cleanly on without special cases later. > > On i386 a head32.c that runs before start_kernel() could be also > introduced for this. > > As long as it's localized there it is fine. > > This would also allow to define new private e820 types and extend > the string decoding in e820; so that dmesg will correctly contain > > EFI: .... > > instead of > > BIOS-e820: ... >
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