Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752363AbYCERns (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 12:43:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761840AbYCERn2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 12:43:28 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:40944 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761624AbYCERn1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 12:43:27 -0500 Message-ID: <47CEDAB3.2080404@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:38:59 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080226) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge CC: Eduardo Habkost , Ian Campbell , Alexander van Heukelum , Ingo Molnar , Alexander van Heukelum , Andi Kleen , Thomas Gleixner , Mark McLoughlin , LKML Subject: Re: [RFC] use realmode code to reserve end-of-conventional-memory to 1MB References: <1203958478.20033.1239002461@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20080225170134.GA15839@elte.hu> <20080225180750.GA31054@mailshack.com> <20080228131341.GA25213@mailshack.com> <20080228132822.GA25278@mailshack.com> <1204233131.28798.12.camel@cthulhu.hellion.org.uk> <47C72432.3010606@zytor.com> <1204240609.28798.33.camel@cthulhu.hellion.org.uk> <20080305155930.GI20230@blackpad> <47CEC561.6050008@zytor.com> <20080305165320.GJ20230@blackpad> <47CED853.6030909@zytor.com> <47CED834.8020207@goop.org> In-Reply-To: <47CED834.8020207@goop.org> 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: 753 Lines: 18 Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> x86 has a number of historical assumptions, both in kernel and in >> userspace (consider dmidecode!) Trying to go against them is a losing >> proposition, *AND* a headache for the maintainers, which will have to >> consider "oh yes, and Xen does this dumb thing which goes against what >> all the hardware does." > > Ahem. "Hardware does this dumb thing that Xen avoids". kthxbye ;) If hardware was trying to emulate Xen, you'd be right. -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/