Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:22:57 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
       huang ying <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com>,
       "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
       Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
       Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 1/3] i386 boot: replace boot_ioremap with enhanced
	bt_ioremap - enhance bt_ioremap
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* Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> wrote:

> > Eric Biederman had a patchset that makes a PAE kernel use PAE page 
> > tables from the start.  That is really The Right Thing[TM].
> 
> That's much saner than dup'ing up the early ioremap stuff to support 
> both PAE and non-PAE at runtime, which is about the only idea I've got 
> for fixing this right now...
> 
> I think I'll just back out the early_ioremap patches locally for now 
> and wait for Eric's patches which should cause the fix for this issue 
> to just fall out in the wash.

Eric's patchset is nowhere near being submitted - he _had_ a patchset. 
So this needs to be fixed by the Xen-guest folks. (if the easiest/best 
fix is to pick up Eric's patchset, then plese do it so)

	Ingo
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