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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org, Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: Re: Question regardin intel64 arch and page table setup
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:02:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C631DF0.2040908@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1zkwsn7h0.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>

On 08/11/2010 02:51 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> 3) I would start just getting the normal kexec case to work.
>    The 64bit kernel does support starting at the 64bit entry point,
>    but I don't think it has been tested if loaded above 4G.
> 

I can guarantee that it hasn't; I looked at that code not all that long
ago and it's shock-full of 32- and 39-bit assumptions.

	-hpa

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-11 22:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-11 19:47 Question regardin intel64 arch and page table setup Neil Horman
2010-08-11 20:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-08-11 21:51   ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-08-11 21:54     ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-08-11 22:02     ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2010-08-12  0:22       ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-08-12  1:05   ` Neil Horman
2010-08-12  1:46     ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-08-12  1:53     ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-08-12  3:21     ` Eric W. Biederman

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