Re: [PATCH 2.6.21 1/3] x86_64 EFI64 support Try #2

2007-07-04 Thread Huang, Ying
Thanks for your comment. Because my colleague Mouli has left for sabbatical, I will continue work on the X86_64 UEFI support kernel patch. On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 16:25 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 10:06:15 -0700 > Chandramouli Narayanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > You

Re: [PATCH 2.6.21 1/3] x86_64 EFI64 support Try #2

2007-07-04 Thread Huang, Ying
Thanks for your comment. Because my colleague Mouli has left for sabbatical, I will continue work on the X86_64 UEFI support kernel patch. On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 16:25 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 10:06:15 -0700 Chandramouli Narayanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You just

Re: [PATCH 2.6.21 1/3] x86_64 EFI64 support Try #2

2007-07-03 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 10:06:15 -0700 Chandramouli Narayanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You just sent three patches, all with the same name. Please take care to choose different and good Subject:s for each patch. http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt covers this a bit. > EFI

Re: [PATCH 2.6.21 1/3] x86_64 EFI64 support Try #2

2007-07-03 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 10:06:15 -0700 Chandramouli Narayanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You just sent three patches, all with the same name. Please take care to choose different and good Subject:s for each patch. http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt covers this a bit. EFI

[PATCH 2.6.21 1/3] x86_64 EFI64 support Try #2

2007-07-02 Thread Chandramouli Narayanan
EFI x86_64 support Patch 1 of 3 (try #2) - Being experimental, dropped default option for CONFIG_EFI. - Implemented EFI to E820 memory map conversion. This is based on bootloader support. The ELILO bootloader x86_64 support has been updated to pass

[PATCH 2.6.21 1/3] x86_64 EFI64 support Try #2

2007-07-02 Thread Chandramouli Narayanan
EFI x86_64 support Patch 1 of 3 (try #2) - Being experimental, dropped default option for CONFIG_EFI. - Implemented EFI to E820 memory map conversion. This is based on bootloader support. The ELILO bootloader x86_64 support has been updated to pass

Re: [PATCH 2.6.21 1/3] x86_64: EFI64 support

2007-06-01 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Chandramouli Narayanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > diff -uprN -X linux-2.6.21rc7-git2-orig/Documentation/dontdiff > linux-2.6.21rc7-git2-orig/drivers/char/Kconfig > linux-2.6.21rc7-git2-uefi-finaltest/drivers/char/Kconfig > --- linux-2.6.21rc7-git2-orig/drivers/char/Kconfig 2007-04-19 >

Re: [PATCH 2.6.21 1/3] x86_64: EFI64 support

2007-06-01 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Sorry for the late replay I missed this patch series going by the first time. > +static efi_status_t > +phys_efi_set_virtual_address_map(unsigned long memory_map_size, > + unsigned long descriptor_size, > + u32 descriptor_version, > +

Re: [PATCH 2.6.21 1/3] x86_64: EFI64 support

2007-06-01 Thread Yinghai Lu
On 5/3/07, chandramouli narayanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Randy Dunlap wrote: > Can you share EFI code as much as possible among ia64, i386, > and x86_64 instead of duplicating it? Hi Randy, Based on the feedback from Andi and you, these are the areas: 1. conversion of EFI memory map to

Re: [PATCH 2.6.21 1/3] x86_64: EFI64 support

2007-06-01 Thread Yinghai Lu
On 5/3/07, chandramouli narayanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Randy Dunlap wrote: Can you share EFI code as much as possible among ia64, i386, and x86_64 instead of duplicating it? Hi Randy, Based on the feedback from Andi and you, these are the areas: 1. conversion of EFI memory map to e820

Re: [PATCH 2.6.21 1/3] x86_64: EFI64 support

2007-06-01 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Sorry for the late replay I missed this patch series going by the first time. +static efi_status_t +phys_efi_set_virtual_address_map(unsigned long memory_map_size, + unsigned long descriptor_size, + u32 descriptor_version, +

Re: [PATCH 2.6.21 1/3] x86_64: EFI64 support

2007-06-01 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Chandramouli Narayanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: diff -uprN -X linux-2.6.21rc7-git2-orig/Documentation/dontdiff linux-2.6.21rc7-git2-orig/drivers/char/Kconfig linux-2.6.21rc7-git2-uefi-finaltest/drivers/char/Kconfig --- linux-2.6.21rc7-git2-orig/drivers/char/Kconfig 2007-04-19

Re: [PATCH 2.6.21 1/3] x86_64: EFI64 support

2007-05-25 Thread chandramouli narayanan
Andi Kleen wrote: On Tuesday 01 May 2007 20:59:46 Chandramouli Narayanan wrote: General note on EFI x86_64 support -- More review. This code unfortunately has some problems. First this seems to be quite different from what the 32bit EFI support does

Re: [PATCH 2.6.21 1/3] x86_64: EFI64 support

2007-05-25 Thread chandramouli narayanan
Andi Kleen wrote: On Tuesday 01 May 2007 20:59:46 Chandramouli Narayanan wrote: General note on EFI x86_64 support -- More review. This code unfortunately has some problems. First this seems to be quite different from what the 32bit EFI support does

Re: [PATCH 2.6.21 1/3] x86_64: EFI64 support

2007-05-04 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tuesday 01 May 2007 20:59:46 Chandramouli Narayanan wrote: > General note on EFI x86_64 support > -- More review. This code unfortunately has some problems. First this seems to be quite different from what the 32bit EFI support does (which i suppose is pre

Re: [PATCH 2.6.21 1/3] x86_64: EFI64 support

2007-05-04 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tuesday 01 May 2007 20:59:46 Chandramouli Narayanan wrote: General note on EFI x86_64 support -- More review. This code unfortunately has some problems. First this seems to be quite different from what the 32bit EFI support does (which i suppose is pre UEFI)

Re: [PATCH 2.6.21 1/3] x86_64: EFI64 support

2007-05-03 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Thu, 03 May 2007 12:20:30 -0700 chandramouli narayanan wrote: > Randy Dunlap wrote: > > Can you share EFI code as much as possible among ia64, i386, > > and x86_64 instead of duplicating it? > Hi Randy, > > Based on the feedback from Andi and you, these are the areas: > > 1. conversion of

Re: [PATCH 2.6.21 1/3] x86_64: EFI64 support

2007-05-03 Thread chandramouli narayanan
Randy Dunlap wrote: Can you share EFI code as much as possible among ia64, i386, and x86_64 instead of duplicating it? Hi Randy, Based on the feedback from Andi and you, these are the areas: 1. conversion of EFI memory map to e820 map 2. Consolidation/sharing of efi code among the

Re: [PATCH 2.6.21 1/3] x86_64: EFI64 support

2007-05-03 Thread chandramouli narayanan
Randy Dunlap wrote: Can you share EFI code as much as possible among ia64, i386, and x86_64 instead of duplicating it? Hi Randy, Based on the feedback from Andi and you, these are the areas: 1. conversion of EFI memory map to e820 map 2. Consolidation/sharing of efi code among the

Re: [PATCH 2.6.21 1/3] x86_64: EFI64 support

2007-05-03 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Thu, 03 May 2007 12:20:30 -0700 chandramouli narayanan wrote: Randy Dunlap wrote: Can you share EFI code as much as possible among ia64, i386, and x86_64 instead of duplicating it? Hi Randy, Based on the feedback from Andi and you, these are the areas: 1. conversion of EFI memory

Re: [PATCH 2.6.21 1/3] x86_64: EFI64 support

2007-05-02 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Tue, 01 May 2007 11:59:46 -0700 Chandramouli Narayanan wrote: > EFI x86_64 build option is added to the kernel configuration. Hi Mouli, Can you share EFI code as much as possible among ia64, i386, and x86_64 instead of duplicating it? A diffstat patch summary would be Good. (see

[PATCH 2.6.21 1/3] x86_64: EFI64 support

2007-05-02 Thread Chandramouli Narayanan
General note on EFI x86_64 support -- The following set of patches implements EFI x86_64 Linux kernel support. References to EFI and UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) are used interchangeably in the text below. UEFI specification can be found here:

[PATCH 2.6.21 1/3] x86_64: EFI64 support

2007-05-02 Thread Chandramouli Narayanan
General note on EFI x86_64 support -- The following set of patches implements EFI x86_64 Linux kernel support. References to EFI and UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) are used interchangeably in the text below. UEFI specification can be found here:

Re: [PATCH 2.6.21 1/3] x86_64: EFI64 support

2007-05-02 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Tue, 01 May 2007 11:59:46 -0700 Chandramouli Narayanan wrote: EFI x86_64 build option is added to the kernel configuration. Hi Mouli, Can you share EFI code as much as possible among ia64, i386, and x86_64 instead of duplicating it? A diffstat patch summary would be Good. (see