Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 Jul 2006 22:34:08 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] Add efi e820 memory mapping on x86 [try #1] |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: >>> This Patch add an efi e820 memory mapping. >>> >> Why? > > EFI is this other Intel brain-damage (the first one being ACPI). It's > totally different from a normal BIOS, and was brought on by ia64, which > never had a BIOS, of course. >
You're forgetting PXE.
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