Re: [CFT][PATCH] 2.6.4-rc1 remove x86 boot page tables

[Eric W. Biederman]

"Tolentino, Matthew E" <matthew.e.tolentino@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> > I have rewritten and compiled tested the boot_ioremap code but I don't
> > have a configuration to test it. This effects the EFI code and the
> > numa srat code.   It might be worth replacing boot_ioremap with __va()
> > to reduce the amount of error checking necessary.
> 
> I just blindly applied this patch and tried it on an x86 EFI system
> with no luck.  It's not mapping correctly for some reason.  I'll look
> at the problem closer in a bit.

Stupid question.  What is efi doing in arch/i386 anyway?

All of the to be production efi x86 systems I have heard of support
x86-64.  So shouldn't it be 64bit calls that we need to worry about?


Eric
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