Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 May 2004 14:49:03 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [2.6.6 PATCH] Exposing EFI memory map |
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On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 03:15:30PM +0530, Sourav Sen wrote: > Here we have "Array of values of same types". And it does not do much > nifty formatting either. Is that not acceptable?
But they are not of the same time, as you admitted :)
Also, they could be bigger than a single page, right? That is not possible right now in sysfs.
> If that is not, how about the following. > > 1. Create a directory "memmap" under firmware/efi/ > 2. Create files "map_start", "map_size" and "mapdesc_size" under > that exposing ia64_boot_param->efi_memmap, > ia64_boot_param->efi_memmap_size > and ia64_boot_param->efi_memdesc_size respectively. > > Userland can make meaning out of them by knowing the values and knowing > about "efi_memory_desc_t" which is already there in > /usr/include/asm/efi.h
I think you should address the other issues in this thread before worrying about the sysfs interface (why have this at all, incorrect data for hotplug mem, etc.)
> PS: BTW, Your slides on "Dealing with the Linux Kernel Community" at: > http://www.kroah.com/linux/talks/cgl_talk_2002_10_16/mgp00001.html > is kind of useful to me. This is my first time :-)
If only more people/companies would heed those rules...
thanks,
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