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Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/28] i386: map enough initial memory to create lowmem
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> 
> Why not?  Er, except in the case where the page is needed to map itself
> - but that can be dealt with with a transient fixmap mapping.
> 

It would be *trivial* to make a certain number of page table slots 
available at the end of the head.S-generated map.

	-hpa