Re: [PATCH] ld.so on FC7 is mmap'ing shared libraries right in over guest memory.

2007-08-10 Thread ron minnich
On 8/9/07, Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 21:07 +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: > > From: Ronald G. Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > [ FC7 maps shared libraries very low, where the launcher maps guest's > > physical memory. Quick fix is to link Launcher static,

Re: [Lguest] [PATCH] virtio config_ops refactoring

2007-11-08 Thread ron minnich
Hi, I'm sorry, I've been stuck on other things (NFS RDMA anyone?) and missed part of this discussion. Is it really the case that operations on virtio devices will involve outl/inl etc.? Apologies in advance for my failure to pay attention. thanks ron - To unsubscribe from this list: send the li

Re: [PATCH] Open Firmware device tree virtual filesystem

2007-01-11 Thread ron minnich
Mitch Bradley wrote: Request for comments. Sorry to revive this thread, I just ran through the discussion. I'm about 50% in agreement with the idea. I'd like to put in my $.02 in favor of having a way to pass the OF device tree to the kernel, in much the same way we pass stuff like ACPI and PI

Re: [PATCH] Open Firmware device tree virtual filesystem

2007-01-11 Thread ron minnich
On 1/11/07, Mitch Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Segher has a modification to the devtree patch that creates a lower level ops vector that can be implemented with callback or non-callback. It is still being tested. Wonderful! If the non-callback version works out, then we can greatly widen

Re: [PATCH] Open Firmware device tree virtual filesystem

2007-01-11 Thread ron minnich
On 1/11/07, Stefan Reinauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This works fine for just passing the device tree, but it will fail for the next step of being able to use the firmware in the OS, and returning sanely to the firmware. And why is it we need to do that, presently? And how, in a virtualized

Re: [PATCH] Open Firmware device tree virtual filesystem

2007-01-11 Thread ron minnich
On 1/11/07, Segher Boessenkool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Depends. The kernel _can_ shut down OF; in that case, it becomes responsible for passing the device tree along to the kexec'd kernel. so we will need the non-callback support anyway, it seems? thanks ron - To unsubscribe from this l

Re: [Lguest] [PATCH] Introduce "used_vectors" bitmap which can be used to reserve vectors.

2007-09-18 Thread ron minnich
On 9/13/07, Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Andi and everyone, > > Wanted to get your thoughts on this patch. lguest now supports plan9 > guests which use 0x40 for system calls. We want to let the guests use > that vector if available, but have no way to stop io_apic from >

Re: [PATCH] mtd: parser: cmdline: Support MTD names containing one or more colons

2020-12-07 Thread ron minnich
I pinged the person again. Hope to hear today. Sorry for delay. On Sun, Dec 6, 2020 at 11:52 PM Sven Eckelmann wrote: > > On Friday, 27 November 2020 19:54:30 CET ron minnich wrote: > > Thanks, Sven, for your patience, I will indeed try to test this next week. > > Any test

Re: [PATCH] mtd: parser: cmdline: Support MTD names containing one or more colons

2020-12-09 Thread Ron Minnich
Tested-by: Ian Goegebuer On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 7:24 AM ron minnich wrote: > > I pinged the person again. Hope to hear today. Sorry for delay. > > On Sun, Dec 6, 2020 at 11:52 PM Sven Eckelmann wrote: > > > > On Friday, 27 November 2020 19:54:30 CET ron minnich wrote:

Re: [PATCH] mtd: parser: cmdline: Support MTD names containing one or more colons

2021-01-04 Thread Ron Minnich
It is likely we're missing something -- I am not fully checked out on the Linux patch process and it's Ian's first patch. Guidance appreciated. On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 1:08 AM Miquel Raynal wrote: > > Hello Ian, > > Ian Goegebuer wrote on Wed, 23 Dec 2020 13:56:30 > -0800: > > > On Intel platfor

Re: [PATCH] mtd: parser: cmdline: Support MTD names containing one or more colons

2020-11-27 Thread ron minnich
gt; making mtdpart= parsing impossible. Let's fix the parser to gracefully > > handle that case: the last ':' in a partition definition sequence is > > considered instead of the first one. > > > > Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon > > Si

Re: [PATCH] mtd: parser: cmdline: Support MTD names containing one or more colons

2020-11-27 Thread ron minnich
I can't think of anything better that lets us preserve current behavior and support PCI device specifiers? Ron On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 9:06 AM Sven Eckelmann wrote: > > On Friday, 27 November 2020 17:32:02 CET ron minnich wrote: > > I'm a bit worried about how tricky this star

Re: [PATCH] mtd: parser: cmdline: Support MTD names containing one or more colons

2020-11-27 Thread ron minnich
Thanks, Sven, for your patience, I will indeed try to test this next week. On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 9:35 AM Sven Eckelmann wrote: > > On Friday, 27 November 2020 18:16:54 CET ron minnich wrote: > > What none of the people involved in the original patch knew was that > > th

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] x86: add coreboot framebuffer support

2014-09-05 Thread ron minnich
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 1:05 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > I'm not a fan of Coreboot having invented its own nonstandard hacks, but > I guess it is pretty much unavoidable. I suspect this should not be architecture-dependent, since coreboot tables work across 3 coreboot architectures at present wit

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] x86: add coreboot framebuffer support

2014-09-05 Thread ron minnich
Vladimir can you point me to that patch? This sounds interesting. ron -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://w

Re: [PATCH] initrd: Remove erroneous comment

2020-06-22 Thread ron minnich
The other thing you ought to consider fixing: initrd is documented as follows: initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk for bootloaders only. UEFI consumes initrd from the command line as well. As ARM servers increasingly use UEFI, there may be situations in whi

Re: [PATCH] initrd: Remove erroneous comment

2020-06-22 Thread ron minnich
So, let me first add, the comment can be removed as needed. Comments offered only for clarification. On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 1:40 PM Tom Rini wrote: > But what do you mean UEFI "consumes" initrd= ? What I mean is, there are bootloaders that will, if they see initrd= in the command line, remove

Re: [PATCH] initrd: Remove erroneous comment

2020-06-19 Thread ron minnich
It seems fine to me, but I did not initially object to the use of that name anyway. hpa, what do you think? On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 7:31 AM Tom Rini wrote: > > Most architectures have been passing the location of an initrd via the > initrd= option since their inception. Remove the comment as it'