Re: [PATCH] x86: Construct 32 bit boot time page tables in native format.

Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-28T20:03:50Z

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> and we already have to have code to synchronize the PGDs on !PAE and
> the PMDs on Xen (although that was supposedly getting fixed).

No, I don't have any plans there. Xen will continue to require
non-shared kernel pmd, at least for a 32-bit host. I think the point is
that nothing that requires an identity mapping will work under Xen
anyway, so Xen just doesn't care about this case.

J