Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 27 May 2008 12:16:04 -0700 | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 10/10] x86 boot: add code to add BIOS provided EFI memory entries to kernel |
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Paul Jackson wrote: > > But I reply mine is better, because we can already provide, with the > current EFI interfaces, all the entries from the boot loader to the > kernel, so we do not need to provide them twice, a second time via an > E820 map mechanism that must be revised and extended to handle the > additional memory map entries past the first 128 of them. >
This was discussed over a year ago, and it was declared the boot loaders' responsibility. Please go back and look at the archives for the discussion rather than rehashing it at this time.
-hpa
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