On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 02:24:54PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > On Mi, 2014-03-12 at 09:05 -0400, Gabriel L. Somlo wrote: > > I'm assuming this should be another post-Seabios-compatibility patch, > > at the end of the series, and I should still do the (start,size) > > arithmetic cut'n'pasted from SeaBIOS first, right ? > > You should get identical results with both methods. It's just that the > e820 method is more future proof, i.e. if the numa people add support > for non-contignous memory some day we don't have to adapt the smbios > code to handle it.
OK, I'm looking for the least inelegant way to expose e820 to smbios.c :) Meanwhile: > > > I think we should just use e820_table (see pc.c) here. Loop over it and > > > add a type 19 table for each ram region in there. You mean only for entries of type E820_RAM, correct ? Thx, --G
