Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:00:36 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: Construct 32 bit boot time page tables in native format. |
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Ian Campbell wrote: > On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 21:36 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: >> * H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> 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 :) > > I'm not sure I can promise that sort of coverage ;-) Will test on what > hardware I've got available... >
I tend to use simulators (e.g. Qemu) quite a bit. They let you tune this kind of stuff.
-hpa
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