Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:45:39 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>,
       Mika =?iso-8859-1?Q?Penttil=E4?= <mika.penttila@kolumbus.fi>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
       Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
       "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Construct 32 bit boot time page tables in native
	format.
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* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:

>> ok, i'll wait for Ian to submit the final (tested) version then. A 
>> few possible complications are: PSE-less boxes, 32-bit PAGEALLOC 
>> bootups with tons of RAM, NX-less boxes and NX-able boxes :)
>
> PSE-less should be less of an issue than making sure we switch to 
> using large pages where appropriate, and enable the PGE and NX bits 
> where appropriate.

yeah - and that would be the right point to enable gigapages as well - 
once we have all this stuff consolidated and unified from grounds up.

	Ingo
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