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SubjectRe: Linux 3.9-rc1
On 03/06/2013 08:08 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 12:06 AM, Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se> wrote:
>>
>> Or not. ;-) This commit breaks boot on my MacBookAir3,1:
>>
>> commit 8d57470d8f859635deffe3919d7d4867b488b85a
>> Author: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
>> Date: Fri Nov 16 19:38:58 2012 -0800
>>
>> x86, mm: setup page table in top-down
>
> Argh. The whole page table setup crud is scarily fragile.
>

Yes. The design of the new code should be much more robust by design,
but of course all the corner cases got shifted around...

-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.



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