Re: early_res and find_e820_area for i386?

[H. Peter Anvin]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> i disagree, the early_res stuff is still quite unclean, and what we want 
> do do is to get rid of it, not promote it into 32-bit code ... (The 
> reason we merged the early_res stuff in 2.6.25 was because it was 
> certainly cleaner than the horrible open-coded reservations that the 
> 64-bit code did before. So now we at least have a more less visible 
> enumeration of reservations.)
>  
> The correct and clean clean solution is what hpa mentioned: to do 
> reservations in the e820 space. I think hpa has some code for that 
> already and we should merge that. Peter?

I do have some code for this stuff, but it's not merge-ready... I'll try 
to hammer it into shape.

	-hpa
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