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SubjectRe: [PATCH -mm -v3 1/2] i386/x86_64 boot: setup data
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>
> Do you actually need a linked list of data? This is similar to the
> changes to bzImage to support booting bzImage a paravirt environment,
> but I just proposed a pointer to a single info structure, along with a
> field to identify the boot environment (ie, native/lguest/xen etc). It
> would be easy to extend this to handle EFI as just another boot
> environment, and you could hang a list of structures off the pointer.
>

*He* doesn't, but *we* do. We have already run into at least one case
where the existing structure is insufficient (EDD overhaul), and so we
need to do something extensible.

-hpa
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