Re: [PATCH 0/4] x86_64 boot -v2: Add linked listof structsetup_data to boot protocol

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Mar 28 2008 - 04:50:57 EST



* Huang, Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This patchset adds the linked list of struct setup_data to boot
> protocol. This is needed by EDD information and some SGI machine with
> E820 entry number > 128.
>
> Now, only the x86_64 is supported. The i386 can be supported after
> early reservation mechanism for x86 is available.
>
> This patchset is based x86.git latest branch and has been tested on
> Intel x86_64 machine.

thanks, applied. Note: as i mentioned, this code needs to be unified,
and we can only merge this upstream into 2.6.26 once 32-bit support has
been added too. The last thing we need is 64-bit only boot protocol
extensions.

Ingo
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