Introduce userspace interface for Firmware-provided memory map

Vivek Goyal vgoyal at redhat.com
Fri Jun 20 15:42:00 EDT 2008


On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 05:56:57PM +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> This patch (as request for comments) introduces a new userspace interface
> /proc/firmware_mem that provides the unfiltered view of the BIOS on
> memory configuration. That's usable for two reasons:
> 

How about /proc/firmware_memmap. This is little longish but probably more
clear in intent.

Thanks
Vivek



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