Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:12:43 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: MAINTAINERS file out of date? |
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WANG Cong wrote: >> >> I have considered myself as a rather unofficial maintainer of this code, >> and wouldn't mind make it official now when I actually have a job which >> both cares about and actually can support my upstream Linux activities, >> which was a major pain for a while. >> >> Overall, there is a lot of cleanup which really is needed in the i386 >> boot process; I have done some work on it already, but more is needed. > > Sounds interesting. Can you point me what needs to be done exactly? Maybe I can help you. ;)
There was a long thread on the linux-virtualization list (@lists.linux-foundation.org) just a few days ago. The biggest single issue right now is probably how we transition from the bootup page tables to the "real" init_mm page tables, but the real-mode code also needs a massive overhaul (especially so since this code can and should be shared with x86-64); in particular I really want to get rid of the insane segment handling, where segments are constantly recalculated for no good reason.
For the real-mode stuff, I have some patches already in the works for this. Eric W. Biederman has also done a lot of work in this area.
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