linux-kernel - Re: [patch 7/8] Add a bootparameter to reserve high linear address space.

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Message-Id: <200608070410.22803.ak@suse.de>
Date:	Mon, 7 Aug 2006 04:10:22 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	virtualization@...ts.osdl.org
Cc:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...source.com>, akpm@...l.org,
	xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com, Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 7/8] Add a bootparameter to reserve high linear address space.

On Thursday 01 January 1970 01:15, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > Add a bootparameter to reserve high linear address space for hypervisors.
> > This is necessary to allow dynamically loaded hypervisor modules, which
> 
> Dynamically loaded hypervisor? Do we really want to support that?

I hope so. IMHO letting Linux boot first and then the Hypervisor is 
a better design than the other way round which requires a lot of duplicated code.

-Andi
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