Re: [RFC][PATCH] let EDD work on x86-64 too

[Andi Kleen]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:23:44AM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote:
> Andi, I'm proposing allowing my BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive (EDD) code to
> work on x86-64 as it does on x86 today.  The patch below moves some
> files around out of arch/i386/kernel and include/asm-i386 into more
> generic locations, and allows EDD to work.  I've tested this against BK-current
> (from my POV it's 2.6.4 plus the edd-legacychs patch Andrew forwarded
> to Linus and is now in BK); I see there will be conflicts with the
> empty_zero_page-cleanup.patch which is in -mm right now - they're just
> comment conflicts, but I'll need to clean that up once it's in BK.

I have no problems with the x86-64 changes (assuming they work).

But I won't push the i386 changes. I would suggest you get that into
mainline first and when it's there send me a patch with just the x86-64
bits.

-Andi
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