linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL][RESEND #2] KVM Updates for 2.6.23-rc1

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Date:	Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:39:05 +0300
From:	"S.Çağlar Onur" <caglar@...dus.org.tr>
To:	Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL][RESEND #2] KVM Updates for 2.6.23-rc1

Hi;

17 Tem 2007 Sal tarihinde, Avi Kivity şunları yazmıştı: 
> I fixed the issue with the previous patchset.  Please provide further
> feedback, or pull from:
>
>  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/avi/kvm.git for-linus
>
> This contains kvm updates for the 2.6.23 merge window, including
>
>  - performance improvements
>  - suspend/resume fixes
>  - guest smp
>  - random fixes and cleanups

I have a tiny question triggered in my mind after seeing following, sorry if 
this was disccussed before;

config KVM
    tristate "Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) support"
    depends on X86 && EXPERIMENTAL
    depends on X86_CMPXCHG64 || 64BIT

If i'm not wrong X86_CMPXCHG64 depends on CONFIG_X86_PAE which depends on 
HIGHMEM64 and again if i'm not wrong this means distributions who wants to 
provide KVM must enable CONFIG_X86_PAE and CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G from now on?

Is this intentional or this is here because of an assumption like "processors 
supports virtualization already provides PAE", could you please enlighten me?

Cheers
-- 
S.Çağlar Onur <caglar@...dus.org.tr>
http://cekirdek.pardus.org.tr/~caglar/

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