Re: early_res and find_e820_area for i386?

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Mar 04 2008 - 05:35:24 EST



* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> BTW: Why not merge e820_32.c and e820_64.c? At least part of them.
>
> What we *should* do, on both i386 and x86-64, is to create a synthetic
> e820 table of any non-e820 information, and then yes, we should merge
> the code.
>
> In other words, we should have an e820 table which reflects what the
> kernel considers true about the memory space.

i'd strongly support the moving of this from the realm of talk into the
realm of code! :-)

Ingo
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