Re: [RFC PATCH v4 11/28] x86: Add support to determine the E820 type of an address

From	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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Subject	Re: [RFC PATCH v4 11/28] x86: Add support to determine the E820 type of an address
Date	2017-03-03 11:00 +0100
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On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 04:34:39PM -0600, Tom Lendacky wrote:
> Or if we want to guard against ACPI adding a type 0 in the future, I
> could make the function return an int and then return -EINVAL if an e820
> entry isn't found.  This might be the better option.

Yap, think so too. I don't trust specs anyway :)

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Re: [RFC PATCH v4 11/28] x86: Add support to determine the E820 type  of an address Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2017-03-03 11:00 +0100

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