From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@xensource.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
virtualization@lists.osdl.org,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 8 of 13] Add a bootparameter to reserve high linear address space for hypervisors
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 06:21:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200608020621.22827.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1154490840.2570.37.camel@localhost.localdomain>
> I think you misunderstand the purpose of parse_early_param? It is
> designed to be called directly by the arch at some point (it is
> idempotent, so the second call in init/main.c does nothing if the arch
> has called it). ie. in i386, it replaces parse_cmdline_early().
Ah I didn't realize that. But why is there a second call in init/main.c?
Looks like a big hack to me. Someone was too lazy to add it to all architectures?
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-02 4:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2006-08-01 21:47 ` [PATCH 8 of 13] Add a bootparameter to reserve high linear address space for hypervisors Andi Kleen
2006-08-02 0:48 ` Rusty Russell
2006-08-02 2:59 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-02 3:54 ` [Xen-devel] " Rusty Russell
2006-08-02 4:21 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-08-02 4:33 ` Rusty Russell
2006-08-02 4:36 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-02 5:20 ` Rusty Russell
2006-08-02 5:24 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-02 9:06 ` [PATCH 1/2] Allow early_param and identical __setup to exist Rusty Russell
2006-08-02 9:08 ` [PATCH 2/2] Replace i386 open-coded cmdline parsing with early_param/parse_early_param Rusty Russell
2006-08-02 9:24 ` Andi Kleen
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