ibft, x86: Change reserve_ibft_region() to find_ibft_region()
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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk on 8 Apr 2010 12:20 On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 08:53:48AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Thu, 8 Apr 2010, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > > > > So arch code could decide the way to reserve the ibft. > > > > And We should reserve ibft as early as possible, instead of BOOTMEM stage, > > in case the table is in RAM range and is not reserved by BIOS. > > For all I know this is all perfectly fine, but I have _no_ idea about how > ibft is supposed to work, so I can't really judge it. As a result, I won't > pull it without some more acks from people who actually know what that > thing is.. Oh, I am definitely ACK-ing. Sorry about not explicitly stating that. The developer is Yinghai Lu, I am the co-maintainer of the iBFT driver. Linus, would you like me to modify the commit so that it has 'Acked-by:' by me in the git tree? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ |