Re: [PATCH] export e820 table on x86

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Dave Hansen wrote:
>
> I stole a patch that Arjan did a while ago, and ported it up to 2.5:
> http://www.kernelnewbies.org/kernels/rh80/SOURCES/linux-2.4.0-e820.patch
> 
> We need this so avoid making BIOS calls when using kexec.

Hmm.. So

 - why isn't the info in /proc/iomem good enough - ie wouldn't it be 
   better to just extend resource handling to 64 bit instead of
   creating a new file.

 - please use the seq_file interfaces for new files if you do end up 
   creating new files.

		Linus