Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:56:12 -0700 | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH -mm -v3 1/2] i386/x86_64 boot: setup data |
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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.
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