Messages in this thread | | | From | Dan Williams <> | Date | Thu, 18 Aug 2016 12:12:10 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86: Set up resources correctly on Hyper-V Generation 2 |
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On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 11:26 AM, Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com> wrote: > *Until* such a mechanism is in, I see no reason to not keep feature parity for all platforms. This is the exact "You should boil the ocean" response that Arjan famously complained about at Kernel Summit a few years ago.
Feature parity for all platforms is the NFIT which Hyper-V is already implementing.
Setting that aside, if we want to fix memmap= for the general case, implementing a table like mBFT does not amount to ocean boiling in my opinion.
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