[PATCH 2/3] Use /proc/firmware_mem for x86 (e820)

Bernhard Walle bwalle at suse.de
Thu Jun 26 04:21:37 EDT 2008


* Pavel Machek [2008-06-24 20:28]:
>
> > This patch copies the E820 map very early, before the kernel applies various
> > operations. That copy is used later to register only the BIOS-provided E820
> > map later in the resource tree for /proc/firmware_mem.
> 
> It is not process related -> it should not go to /proc. Talk to Greg.

http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/26/75


Bernhard
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