linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC] x86: add brk allocation for very, very early allocations

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Date:	Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:41:01 -0800
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
CC:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] x86: add brk allocation for very, very early allocations

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Cool; just wanted it noted what the rules were.  Even more so the reason
> to fold as many possible uses as possible into this new mechanism.
>   

Yes, I just converted i386 pagetable construction and dmi_alloc().  
Boots under qemu.

> P.S. Could you send me the updates to the dom0 patches you said you had?
>   

Was just tidying them up for posting but got slightly sidetracked.  (The 
TSS/io-bitmap changes are a prelude to the dom0 patches though.)

    J
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