From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754189AbYAWUwn (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:52:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752164AbYAWUwY (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:52:24 -0500 Received: from mtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.48]:10664 "EHLO mtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752035AbYAWUwW (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:52:22 -0500 From: Ian Campbell To: Ingo Molnar Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Mika =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Penttil=E4?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "Eric W. Biederman" In-Reply-To: <20080122203611.GA12892@elte.hu> 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> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:52:10 +0000 Message-Id: <1201121530.30671.15.camel@cthulhu.hellion.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.1.223 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ijc@hellion.org.uk Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Construct 32 bit boot time page tables in native format. X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Tue, 09 Jan 2007 17:23:22 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on hopkins.hellion.org.uk) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 :) FYI, CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC+PAE is broken. I'll dig in but it might be the weekend before I get a chance (there's a beer festival in town ;-)). Ian. -- Ian Campbell Flattery will get you everywhere.