linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm 1/3] i386 boot: replace boot_ioremap with enhanced bt_ioremap

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Message-ID: <4790E193.20003@goop.org>
Date:	Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:27:47 -0800
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC:	Ian Campbell <ijc@...lion.org.uk>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	huang ying <huang.ying.caritas@...il.com>,
	"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Stephen Tweedie <sct@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 1/3] i386 boot: replace boot_ioremap with enhanced
 bt_ioremap - enhance bt_ioremap

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Ian Campbell <ijc@...lion.org.uk> wrote:
>
>   
>>> Eric Biederman had a patchset that makes a PAE kernel use PAE page 
>>> tables from the start.  That is really The Right Thing[TM].
>>>       
>> That's much saner than dup'ing up the early ioremap stuff to support 
>> both PAE and non-PAE at runtime, which is about the only idea I've got 
>> for fixing this right now...
>>
>> I think I'll just back out the early_ioremap patches locally for now 
>> and wait for Eric's patches which should cause the fix for this issue 
>> to just fall out in the wash.
>>     
>
> Eric's patchset is nowhere near being submitted - he _had_ a patchset. 
> So this needs to be fixed by the Xen-guest folks. (if the easiest/best 
> fix is to pick up Eric's patchset, then plese do it so)
>   

This is only relevent to dom0 isn't it?  sct is looking at that at the 
moment.  

    J
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