From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rohit Seth Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 00:22:40 +0000 Subject: Re: [RFC] 4-level page table directories. Message-Id: <1131495760.6542.2.camel@akash.sc.intel.com> List-Id: References: <20051027041709.GA13193@attica.americas.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20051027041709.GA13193@attica.americas.sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 00:58 +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Rohit Seth wrote: > > I agree with you completely about OSV certification part. And SuSE is > > again a good example here, they have a released kernel with 64K page > > size. There is no reason why end customer should not be using this > > bigger page kernel when desired. > > Unfortuantely, I'm pretty sure that if you run such a kernel and call > $BIGISV for support you'll find yourself in troubles. :-( > > OSVs and ISVs, on the other hand, usually prefer to only test and harden > and qualify/certify a single kernel (which is why Dan's approach to Xen/ia64 > looks quite appealing). > Going by your first argument, the first thing ISV/OSV will in this case ask the end customer to knock of all the extra/special command line options used... -rohit