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Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:06:48 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH -v7 0/3] x86 boot: 32-bit boot protocol
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Huang, Ying wrote:
> This patch set defines a 32-bit boot protocol for x86 platform, adds
> an extensible boot parameter passing mechanism, export the boot
> parameters via sysfs.
> 
> The patch set has been tested against kernel of git version
> v2.6.23-6623-g55b70a0 (with Rusty's git tree pulled) on x86_64 and
> i386.
> 
> This patch set is based on the proposal of Peter Anvin.
> 

Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

This patchset should spend a cycle in -mm before being merged, though.

	-hpa