From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932159AbWGRKHk (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jul 2006 06:07:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932160AbWGRKHk (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jul 2006 06:07:40 -0400 Received: from [216.208.38.107] ([216.208.38.107]:38272 "EHLO OTTLS.pngxnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932159AbWGRKHj (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jul 2006 06:07:39 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 13/33] Add a new head.S start-of-day file for booting on Xen. From: Arjan van de Ven To: Chris Wright Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton , Rusty Russell , Zachary Amsden , Ian Pratt , Christian Limpach In-Reply-To: <20060718091951.689269000@sous-sol.org> References: <20060718091807.467468000@sous-sol.org> <20060718091951.689269000@sous-sol.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel International BV Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:06:35 +0200 Message-Id: <1153217196.3038.28.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 00:00 -0700, Chris Wright wrote: > plain text document attachment (i386-head.S) > When running on Xen, the kernel is started with paging enabled. Also > don't check for cpu features which are present on all cpus supported > by Xen. Hi, I didn't see much of this last sentence in the actual patch, which is good, because I just don't see any reason to do that at all; if they features are there anyway, why not preserve their detection, it's not hurting and it means you need to be less different "just because"... Greetings, Arjan van de Ven