Re: [PATCH 1/1] Add efi e820 memory mapping on x86 [try #1]

[H. Peter Anvin]

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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