Re: [PATCH 1/1] Add efi e820 memory mapping on x86 [try #1]
From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Tue Jul 25 2006 - 01:32:15 EST
Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
This Patch add an efi e820 memory mapping.
Why?
EFI is this other Intel brain-damage (the first one being ACPI). It's
totally different from a normal BIOS, and was brought on by ia64, which
never had a BIOS, of course.
You're forgetting PXE.
-hpa
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