From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [CFT][PATCH] 2.6.4-rc1 remove x86 boot page tables
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 11:05:38 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1078167938.27444.43.camel@nighthawk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1vflp81kq.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 23:32, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> I have rewritten and compiled tested the boot_ioremap code but I don't
> have a configuration to test it. This effects the EFI code and the
> numa srat code. It might be worth replacing boot_ioremap with __va()
> to reduce the amount of error checking necessary.
I can probably have someone test it, but you're right, we don't really
need boot_ioremap() if we're going to map in all 4G at boot time. I'd
just prefer that you remove it completely in your patch.
I can test it on some SRAT hardware if you'd like.
-- dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-01 19:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-01 7:32 [CFT][PATCH] 2.6.4-rc1 remove x86 boot page tables Eric W. Biederman
2004-03-01 19:05 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2004-03-02 5:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-03-02 6:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-03-02 12:53 ` [PATCH] Clean up empty_zero_page abuse Brian Gerst
2004-03-02 17:56 ` [CFT][PATCH] 2.6.4-rc1 remove x86 boot page tables Eric W. Biederman
2004-03-02 9:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-03-01 18:13 Tolentino, Matthew E
2004-03-02 5:36 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-03-03 6:47 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-03-03 8:15 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-03-03 19:45 Tolentino, Matthew E
2004-03-05 14:23 ` Eric W. Biederman
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