Re: [LKML] Re: [PATCH 1/1] ibft, x86: Change reserve_ibft_region()to find_ibft_region()

From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Date: Thu Apr 08 2010 - 12:14:29 EST


On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 08:53:48AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 8 Apr 2010, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> >
> > So arch code could decide the way to reserve the ibft.
> >
> > And We should reserve ibft as early as possible, instead of BOOTMEM stage,
> > in case the table is in RAM range and is not reserved by BIOS.
>
> For all I know this is all perfectly fine, but I have _no_ idea about how
> ibft is supposed to work, so I can't really judge it. As a result, I won't
> pull it without some more acks from people who actually know what that
> thing is..

Oh, I am definitely ACK-ing. Sorry about not explicitly stating that.
The developer is Yinghai Lu, I am the co-maintainer of the iBFT driver.

Linus, would you like me to modify the commit so that it has 'Acked-by:'
by me in the git tree?
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