Re: [PATCH 01/12] x86_64: Allow fixmaps to be used with the initial page table.
- From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:23:10 +0200
On Monday 30 April 2007 17:48:13 Eric W. Biederman wrote:
This patch preallocates the intermediate page table entries so that
all that is needed to setup a fixmap is to fill in the appropriate
pte.
By doing this modern hardware that uses memory mapped access can be
talked to early in boot through a fixmap.
I'll take 1-4 after the .22 merge; a little too experimental right now
-Andi
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