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* [PATCH 1/3] lguest: document 32-bit and PAE requirements
@ 2009-04-15 14:39 Rusty Russell
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From: Rusty Russell @ 2009-04-15 14:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel; +Cc: lguest, Robert P. J. Day, Robert P. J. Day


Impact: documentation update

Robert noted that we don't actually document that lguest is 32-bit only,
nor that PAE must be off (CONFIG_PAE is now prompted for if HIGHMEM is
set to "off).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: lguest@ozlabs.org
Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
---
 Documentation/lguest/lguest.txt |   11 ++++++-----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/lguest/lguest.txt b/Documentation/lguest/lguest.txt
--- a/Documentation/lguest/lguest.txt
+++ b/Documentation/lguest/lguest.txt
@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@
  /,    /`      - or, A Young Coder's Illustrated Hypervisor
  \\"--\\    http://lguest.ozlabs.org
 
-Lguest is designed to be a minimal hypervisor for the Linux kernel, for
-Linux developers and users to experiment with virtualization with the
-minimum of complexity.  Nonetheless, it should have sufficient
-features to make it useful for specific tasks, and, of course, you are
-encouraged to fork and enhance it (see drivers/lguest/README).
+Lguest is designed to be a minimal 32-bit x86 hypervisor for the Linux kernel,
+for Linux developers and users to experiment with virtualization with the
+minimum of complexity.  Nonetheless, it should have sufficient features to
+make it useful for specific tasks, and, of course, you are encouraged to fork
+and enhance it (see drivers/lguest/README).
 
 Features:
 
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ Running Lguest:
      "Paravirtualized guest support" = Y
         "Lguest guest support" = Y
      "High Memory Support" = off/4GB
+     "PAE (Physical Address Extension) Support" = N
      "Alignment value to which kernel should be aligned" = 0x100000
         (CONFIG_PARAVIRT=y, CONFIG_LGUEST_GUEST=y, CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=n and
          CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN=0x100000)


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