Re: [PATCH 2/4] x86_64 boot -v2: Add linked list of structsetup_data

From: Huang, Ying
Date: Sun Mar 30 2008 - 20:50:17 EST


On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 01:15 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
[...]
> current reserve_early will have limitation with 20 entries.
>
> /*
> * Early reserved memory areas.
> */
>
> #define MAX_EARLY_RES 20
>
> or we need to make reserve_early a little bit smart, so it could merge
> continuous region...
> and then your free_early need to be updated too.

It is planned that the reserve_early code be replaced by e820 based
memory reservation code. So I think we can stay with current
implementation and wait for the new infrastructure.

Best Regards,
Huang Ying

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