Messages in this thread | | | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] Add efi e820 memory mapping on x86 [try #1] | Date | Mon, 24 Jul 2006 23:17:07 -0600 |
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Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes:
> On Sun, 16 Jul 2006 10:55:30 +0200 > Edgar Hucek <hostmaster@ed-soft.at> wrote: > >> This Patch add an efi e820 memory mapping. >> > > Why?
The x86 architecture needs a way to represent the firmware supplied memory map in a way that later code can query what is in the map. The easiest way to do this is simply to convert the efi memory map into an e820 memory map.
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