Re: [PATCH 08/12] i386: Convert the boot time page tables to the kernels native format.

From: ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:42:31 -0600

Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> 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
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References:
- [PATCH 0/12] Early USB debug port and i386 boot cleanups
  - From: Eric W. Biederman
- [PATCH 07/12] i386: Add missing !X86_PAE dependincy to the 2G/2G split.
  - From: Eric W. Biederman
- [PATCH 08/12] i386: Convert the boot time page tables to the kernels native format.
  - From: Eric W. Biederman
- Re: [PATCH 08/12] i386: Convert the boot time page tables to the kernels native format.
  - From: Andi Kleen

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