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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/12] i386: Convert the boot time page tables to the kernels native format.
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Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:42:31 -0600
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Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> writes:

> On Monday 30 April 2007 18:15:08 Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> 
>> Currently we have a lot of special case code and a lot of limitations
>> because we cannot count on the initial boot time page tables being in
>> the format our page table handling routines know how to manipulate.
>> So this patch rewrites the code that initializes our boot time page
>> tables.
>
> Sounds reasonable, but for post .22

Sure.  A little aging to gain confidence with it is reasonable.  At
this point I finally have the glitches worked out so these patches
needed to get out of my private queue.

Eric