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SubjectRe: x86: Add /sys/firmware/memmap
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 01:12:53PM +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> This patch series adds a new interface /sys/firmware/memmap to export
> the BIOS (Firmware) provided memory map via sysfs for usage with
> kexec.
>
> While the first patch adds the generic interface, the second patch
> implements that interface for E820 on x86.
>
> Change compared to previous commit:
>
> 1. Comments from Greg KH.
> 2. Documentation.
>
> The patch has been tested on i386 and x86_64 with success.

This patchset looks good to me. We do need this functionality for doing
the right thing for kexec and kdump users.

Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>

Thanks
Vivek


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