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    SubjectRe: [PATCH]Fix broken VMI in 2.6.27-rc..
    Zachary Amsden wrote:
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    > Using my interplanetary ideas, linking the fixmap at runtime would allow
    > optimal placement of the fixmap, any hypervisor areas, vmalloc, and
    > pkmap space. That might allow one to increase the amount of lowmem
    > available for direct mapping depending on some platform variables such
    > as hypervisor reserved space, physical memory size, APIC present.. those
    > aren't known until boot time. Actually, NCPUs is a good one, since we
    > require atomic kmap space dependent on NCPUs, which could be given back
    > to linear memory map.
    >
    > That might actually be more worthwhile than link time fixed addresses.
    >

    Yeah, but that's a huge project.

    -hpa


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