Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86: add a is_e820_ram() helper

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Mar 26 2015 - 06:29:53 EST


On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 11:28:10AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> btw., there's half a dozen block drivers in arch/* platform code, so
> in theory even the block driver could be merged there - but I agree
> that it's much cleaner and more generic in drivers/block/.

The block driver isn't really architecture specific. With the upcoming
UEFI interface to discover persistent memory arm, arm64 and in theory ia64
will immeditately benefit from it. I also expect it to show up on powerpc
sooner or later at least.

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