linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 08/12] i386: Convert the boot time page tables to the kernels native format.

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Message-ID: <m1odl53jbc.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
Date:	Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:42:31 -0600
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Cc:	virtualization <virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/12] i386: Convert the boot time page tables to the kernels native format.

Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de> writes:

> On Monday 30 April 2007 18:15:08 Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> 
>> Currently we have a lot of special case code and a lot of limitations
>> because we cannot count on the initial boot time page tables being in
>> the format our page table handling routines know how to manipulate.
>> So this patch rewrites the code that initializes our boot time page
>> tables.
>
> Sounds reasonable, but for post .22

Sure.  A little aging to gain confidence with it is reasonable.  At
this point I finally have the glitches worked out so these patches
needed to get out of my private queue.

Eric
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