Re: [PATCH 0/8] x86, acpi: Move acpi_initrd_override() earlier.

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Wed Aug 21 2013 - 09:06:57 EST


Hello,

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 06:15:35PM +0800, Tang Chen wrote:
> [What are we doing]
>
> We are trying to initialize acip tables as early as possible. But Linux kernel
> allows users to override acpi tables by specifying their own tables in initrd.
> So we have to do acpi_initrd_override() earlier first.

So, are we now back to making SRAT info as early as possible? What
happened to just co-locating early allocations close to kernel image?
What'd be the benefit of doing this over that?

Thanks.

--
tejun
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