Re: [PATCH 1/1] Add efi e820 memory mapping on x86 [try #1]

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Tue Jul 25 2006 - 02:24:22 EST


Linus Torvalds wrote:

On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
You're forgetting PXE.

I don't think I'm forgetting it as much as just repressing it. I don't think it actually affects the kernel, does it? I assume the only reason you care is that it might affect a bootloader?


Well, one could write an UNDI (PXE) network driver for Linux. Whether or not one would want to is another matter...

It obviously affects the bootloader.

-hpa
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