Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86: Set up resources correctly on Hyper-V Generation 2

[Dan Williams]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 11:26 AM, Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> *Until* such a mechanism is in, I see no reason to not keep feature parity for all platforms.  This is the exact "You should boil the ocean" response that Arjan famously complained about at Kernel Summit a few years ago.

Feature parity for all platforms is the NFIT which Hyper-V is already
implementing.

Setting that aside, if we want to fix memmap= for the general case,
implementing a table like mBFT does not amount to ocean boiling in my
opinion.