Re: [PATCH] x86: Construct 32 bit boot time page tables in nativeformat.

[Ian Campbell]

On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 10:23 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Ian Campbell wrote:
> > Anyhow, I don't feel all that strongly about it so if the opinion of the
> > early start of day maintainer(s) is strongly in favour of ASM I'll defer
> > to that.
> > 
> 
> My opinion is that I want it done properly (PIC and all that jazz) or 
> not at all, and certainly would not want to mix linear and 
> paging-enabled code in the same file.  When it comes to assembly code, 
> at least people can *see* that there there be dragons.
> 
> The plus *and* minus of a C version is that it's easier for people to 
> modify.  The plus side of that is that if we really need it, it's a lot 
> cleaner; the minus side is that it may encourage more code to creep into 
> the pre-paging code, which would not be a good thing IMO.

Seems reasonable to me. I'll integrate your asm diff with the other
changes and give it a whirl.

Ian. 
-- 
Ian Campbell

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