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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "[PATCH] paravirt: Add startup infrastructure for paravirtualization"
Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 22:12:50 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1178280770.23670.61.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1mz0ku7je.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>

On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 05:56 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> This reverts commit c9ccf30d77f04064fe5436027ab9d2230c7cdd94.
> 
> Entering the kernel at startup_32 without passing our real mode data
> in %esi, and without guaranteeing that physical and virtual addresses
> are identity mapped makes head.S impossible to maintain.

Your assertion that these #ifdef-contained lines of code are "impossible
to maintain" is theatrical.  I'd prefer to wait until we actually have a
replacement before we go ripping out working code.  

Fortunately, I'm working on such code right now.  But as lguest
currently boots with V = P + PAGE_OFFSET, it's not entirely a trivial
matter to change.

Thanks,
Rusty.


  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-04 12:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-04 11:56 [PATCH] Revert "[PATCH] paravirt: Add startup infrastructure for paravirtualization" Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-04 12:12 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2007-05-04 14:13   ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-04 14:37     ` Rusty Russell
2007-05-04 15:07       ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-05  1:22         ` Rusty Russell
2007-05-05  2:45           ` David Miller
2007-05-05  3:14             ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-05  3:50               ` David Miller
2007-05-05  2:53           ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-05  3:22             ` Rusty Russell
2007-05-05 11:18               ` [PATCH] lguest: don't use paravirt_probe, it's dying Rusty Russell
2007-05-07  1:53                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-04 15:58       ` [PATCH] Revert "[PATCH] paravirt: Add startup infrastructure for paravirtualization" Andrew Morton
2007-05-05  1:55         ` Rusty Russell
2007-05-04 14:59     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-04 15:20       ` Eric W. Biederman

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