Re: [PATCH 10/28] i386: map enough initial memory to create lowmemmappings

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Mon Apr 23 2007 - 15:16:27 EST


Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:

Why not? Er, except in the case where the page is needed to map itself
- but that can be dealt with with a transient fixmap mapping.


It would be *trivial* to make a certain number of page table slots available at the end of the head.S-generated map.

-hpa
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