Re: [PATCH]Fix broken VMI in 2.6.27-rc..

[H. Peter Anvin]

Zachary Amsden wrote:
> Using my interplanetary ideas, linking the fixmap at runtime would allow
> optimal placement of the fixmap, any hypervisor areas, vmalloc, and
> pkmap space.  That might allow one to increase the amount of lowmem
> available for direct mapping depending on some platform variables such
> as hypervisor reserved space, physical memory size, APIC present.. those
> aren't known until boot time.  Actually, NCPUs is a good one, since we
> require atomic kmap space dependent on NCPUs, which could be given back
> to linear memory map.
>
> That might actually be more worthwhile than link time fixed addresses.

Yeah, but that's a huge project.

	-hpa
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