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DateFri, 28 Mar 2008 09:50:15 +0100
FromIngo Molnar <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/4] x86_64 boot -v2: Add linked listof struct setup_data to boot protocol
* Huang, Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> wrote:

> This patchset adds the linked list of struct setup_data to boot 
> protocol. This is needed by EDD information and some SGI machine with 
> E820 entry number > 128.
> 
> Now, only the x86_64 is supported. The i386 can be supported after 
> early reservation mechanism for x86 is available.
> 
> This patchset is based x86.git latest branch and has been tested on 
> Intel x86_64 machine.

thanks, applied. Note: as i mentioned, this code needs to be unified, 
and we can only merge this upstream into 2.6.26 once 32-bit support has 
been added too. The last thing we need is 64-bit only boot protocol 
extensions.

	Ingo


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