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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/16] xen: disable PAT
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On Tue, 12 May 2009, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:

> From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
> 
> Xen imposes a particular PAT layout on all paravirtual guests which
> does not match the layout Linux would like to use.
> 
> Force PAT to be disabled until this is resolved.

No, this can be done via CPUID, which is paravirtualized already.
 
Thanks,

	tglx