From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/12] i386: Convert the boot time page tables to the kernels native format. Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:42:31 -0600 Message-ID: References: <200704301826.57920.ak@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200704301826.57920.ak@suse.de> (Andi Kleen's message of "Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:26:57 +0200") List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org To: Andi Kleen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization , James Bottomley , "H. Peter Anvin" , Andrew Morton List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org Andi Kleen writes: > On Monday 30 April 2007 18:15:08 Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> >> Currently we have a lot of special case code and a lot of limitations >> because we cannot count on the initial boot time page tables being in >> the format our page table handling routines know how to manipulate. >> So this patch rewrites the code that initializes our boot time page >> tables. > > Sounds reasonable, but for post .22 Sure. A little aging to gain confidence with it is reasonable. At this point I finally have the glitches worked out so these patches needed to get out of my private queue. Eric