Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:06:51 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: Construct 32 bit boot time page tables in native format. |
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> and we already have to have code to synchronize the PGDs on !PAE and >> the PMDs on Xen (although that was supposedly getting fixed). > > No, I don't have any plans there. Xen will continue to require > non-shared kernel pmd, at least for a 32-bit host. I think the point is > that nothing that requires an identity mapping will work under Xen > anyway, so Xen just doesn't care about this case. >
Still makes it a special case, not just for this.
-hpa
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