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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/28] i386: map enough initial memory to create lowmem mappings
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Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:33:45 -0600
In-Reply-To: <462FDBB4.8020604@goop.org> (Jeremy Fitzhardinge's message of
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> writes:

> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> Since you have PSE disabled for Xen my hunch is that somehow that
>> got left on for your test boot.
>
> No.  Under Xen cpuid masks out PSE (and complains if you try to set it
> in a pte), but when booting native it will just use a plain unadorned cpuid.

Then why you had to allocate enough pages to cause a failure has me stumped.
Perhaps there is some other bug?

Eric