Re: EFI e820 map handling

2007-08-10 Thread huang ying
On 8/9/07, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought a bit about the zero page problem. I really would prefer to not > having it used in a boot loader right now because it's not extensible anymore > when external users start (ab)using it. I think there is more to be discussed than just

Re: EFI e820 map handling

2007-08-10 Thread Andi Kleen
> How about elilo to load freebsd or opensolaris? I don't know. How is that related? The current lilo can't load them either. Supposedly they could write their own EFI boot loaders -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: EFI e820 map handling

2007-08-10 Thread Andi Kleen
How about elilo to load freebsd or opensolaris? I don't know. How is that related? The current lilo can't load them either. Supposedly they could write their own EFI boot loaders -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: EFI e820 map handling

2007-08-10 Thread huang ying
On 8/9/07, Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought a bit about the zero page problem. I really would prefer to not having it used in a boot loader right now because it's not extensible anymore when external users start (ab)using it. I think there is more to be discussed than just

Re: EFI e820 map handling

2007-08-09 Thread Yinghai Lu
On 8/9/07, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hallo, > > I thought a bit about the zero page problem. I really would prefer to not > having it used in a boot loader right now because it's not extensible anymore > when external users start (ab)using it. > > When I asked for separate

EFI e820 map handling

2007-08-09 Thread Andi Kleen
Hallo, I thought a bit about the zero page problem. I really would prefer to not having it used in a boot loader right now because it's not extensible anymore when external users start (ab)using it. When I asked for separate EFI->e820 functions I was really thinking of the kernel to do the

EFI e820 map handling

2007-08-09 Thread Andi Kleen
Hallo, I thought a bit about the zero page problem. I really would prefer to not having it used in a boot loader right now because it's not extensible anymore when external users start (ab)using it. When I asked for separate EFI-e820 functions I was really thinking of the kernel to do the

Re: EFI e820 map handling

2007-08-09 Thread Yinghai Lu
On 8/9/07, Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo, I thought a bit about the zero page problem. I really would prefer to not having it used in a boot loader right now because it's not extensible anymore when external users start (ab)using it. When I asked for separate EFI-e820 functions