Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86: add e820 descriptor attribute field

2013-03-01 Thread li guang
can we fix if it breaks anything? I think there are sound reasons that ACPI add these extended attributes. 在 2013-02-28四的 21:28 -0800,H. Peter Anvin写道: > NAK in the extreme. Not only does this break the bootloader protocol, but > there are systems in the field that break if you give e820 anythin

Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86: add e820 descriptor attribute field

2013-02-28 Thread H. Peter Anvin
NAK in the extreme. Not only does this break the bootloader protocol, but there are systems in the field that break if you give e820 anything other than a 20-byte buffer. liguang wrote: >according to ACPI 5.0 Table 15-273 >Address Range Descriptor Structure, >offset 20 is 32-bit field of Exte

[PATCH 2/2] x86: add e820 descriptor attribute field

2013-02-28 Thread liguang
according to ACPI 5.0 Table 15-273 Address Range Descriptor Structure, offset 20 is 32-bit field of Extended Attributes for Address Range Descriptor Structure. Signed-off-by: liguang --- arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/e820.h |7 ++- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git