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From: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 7/8] Add a bootparameter to reserve high linear address
	space.
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 15:52:46 -0700
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Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 01:58:32 -0700
> Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> wrote:
>
>   =

>> Add a bootparameter to reserve high linear address space for hypervisors.
>> This is necessary to allow dynamically loaded hypervisor modules, which
>> might not happen until userspace is already running, and also provides a
>> useful tool to benchmark the performance impact of reduced lowmem address
>> space.
>>     =

>
> Andi has gone and rotorooted the x86 boot parameter handling in there. =

> This patch now looks like this:
>   =


The rototilled patch looks great.  Acked.

Zach