Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756598AbYAVVBv (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:01:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751841AbYAVVBn (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:01:43 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:52730 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751710AbYAVVBn (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:01:43 -0500 Message-ID: <47965974.5080502@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:00:36 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071115) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ian Campbell CC: Ingo Molnar , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mika_Penttil=E4?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "Eric W. Biederman" Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Construct 32 bit boot time page tables in native format. References: <1200758937-22386-2-git-send-email-ijc@hellion.org.uk> <47939363.8040603@kolumbus.fi> <1200950633.15491.21.camel@cthulhu.hellion.org.uk> <479510CE.7010706@zytor.com> <1200951996.15491.28.camel@cthulhu.hellion.org.uk> <479551FD.5040801@zytor.com> <1201023401.5643.52.camel@localhost.localdomain> <479634A9.1090908@zytor.com> <1201031325.15491.66.camel@cthulhu.hellion.org.uk> <47964B7B.9000905@zytor.com> <20080122203611.GA12892@elte.hu> <1201035150.15491.70.camel@cthulhu.hellion.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <1201035150.15491.70.camel@cthulhu.hellion.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 986 Lines: 25 Ian Campbell wrote: > On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 21:36 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: >> * H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> >>>> Seems reasonable to me. I'll integrate your asm diff with the other >>>> changes and give it a whirl. >>> This version boots into userspace on both PAE and !PAE. You want to >>> take it from here? >> 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 :) > > I'm not sure I can promise that sort of coverage ;-) Will test on what > hardware I've got available... > I tend to use simulators (e.g. Qemu) quite a bit. They let you tune this kind of stuff. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/