Re: [PATCH 1/1] ibft, x86: Change reserve_ibft_region() tofind_ibft_region()

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Apr 08 2010 - 11:58:15 EST




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..

Linus
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