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[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] to fix ACPI slit table access at runtime

To: "Kamble, Nitin A" <nitin.a.kamble@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] to fix ACPI slit table access at runtime
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:01:53 +0000
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On 25/02/2010 17:50, "Kamble, Nitin A" <nitin.a.kamble@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Better would be to dynamically alloc_boot_pages(). Then also the patch would
> be about two or three lines. The only disadvantage would be that then SLIT
> parsing would be for 64-bit hypervisor only (since 32-bit Xen does not have
> mappings for bootmem). I think we can live with that - I note that Linux
> only does SLIT parsing for x86_64 too.
> 
> Keir,
>   If I understand you correctly, you would prefer to have x86_64 bit only
> solution, with dynamic allocation. I will change the patch accordingly and
> resend it.

That would be great, thanks. I think you should only have to modify
acpi_numa_slit_init() in your revised patch.

 -- Keir



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