From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753954AbXD0BMy (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:12:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755318AbXD0BMy (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:12:54 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:43798 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753954AbXD0BMx (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:12:53 -0400 Message-ID: <46314E0B.1020800@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:12:43 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "H. Peter Anvin" , Michael McConnell , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen CC: "Eric W. Biederman" Subject: Re: MAINTAINERS file out of date? References: <4631255F.9010902@eridani.co.uk> <463131FD.8020301@zytor.com> <20070427010914.GA2570@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20070427010914.GA2570@localhost.localdomain> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org WANG Cong wrote: >> >> I have considered myself as a rather unofficial maintainer of this code, >> and wouldn't mind make it official now when I actually have a job which >> both cares about and actually can support my upstream Linux activities, >> which was a major pain for a while. >> >> Overall, there is a lot of cleanup which really is needed in the i386 >> boot process; I have done some work on it already, but more is needed. > > Sounds interesting. Can you point me what needs to be done exactly? Maybe I can help you. ;) There was a long thread on the linux-virtualization list (@lists.linux-foundation.org) just a few days ago. The biggest single issue right now is probably how we transition from the bootup page tables to the "real" init_mm page tables, but the real-mode code also needs a massive overhaul (especially so since this code can and should be shared with x86-64); in particular I really want to get rid of the insane segment handling, where segments are constantly recalculated for no good reason. For the real-mode stuff, I have some patches already in the works for this. Eric W. Biederman has also done a lot of work in this area. -hpa