Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:00:53 -0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v6 00/27] x86, boot, 64bit: Add support for loading ramdisk and bzImage above 4G | From | Yinghai Lu <> |
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On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 3:47 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote: > There are obviously good bits to this patchset, but I'm really starting to > think the "pseudo-linear mode" via a trap handler -- meaning we can access > all of memory without any extra effort -- makes more sense. In fact, that > way we could just build the full page tables without worrying about > incremental bootstrap, depending on if that is a complexity win or not. > > Either way, this is for native only: the Xen domain builder or other similar > entry paths should be setting up page tables that cover all of memory; I'm > hoping Konrad and Stefano can confirm this. > > The only reason to go with another approach I can think of is if it makes > 32/64-bit unification cleaner.
ok. let's wait until the new approach working.
Thanks
Yinghai
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