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Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Huang, Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> wrote:
> 
>>> could you try to do that nevertheless? We generally prefer feature 
>>> patches after sensible unification has been done.
>> I try to port reserve_early() to i386 before. But it is said that the 
>> reserve_early() should be replaced by e820 based early 
>> reservation/allocation mechanism on i386 and x86_64. So I think I 
>> should wait for it.
> 
> correct, e820 space manipulations is how it should be done. Peter, any 
> progress on that project?
> 

It's not all that complex of a piece of code, but the testing is painful 
(fortunately, I have some code which has been at least partially 
validated already.)

I have been working on a nonkernel project this week 
(http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2008-March/009723.html), but I'm 
hoping to look at it next week.

	-hpa