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SubjectRe: [PATCH -v7 1/3] x86 boot: setup data
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On Wednesday 24 October 2007 00:08:32 Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Huang, Ying wrote:
> > This patch add a field of 64-bit physical pointer to NULL terminated
> > single linked list of struct setup_data to real-mode kernel
> > header. This is used as a more extensible boot parameters passing
> > mechanism.
> >
>
> As a general comment, I can't say I'm thrilled about sticking the copied
> setup data at the end of the initial pagetables. This is already a
> fairly complex area, and changing it touches a surprisingly large number
> of places. I wonder if there isn't a better way to deal with this
> (possibly by fixing up the generation of the initial pagetables in the
> process).

With the early reserve code in
ftp://firstfloor.org/pub/ak/x86_64/quilt/patches/early-reserve
and
ftp://firstfloor.org/pub/ak/x86_64/quilt/patches/early-alloc
this could be likely done cleaner.

-Andi
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