Re: [RFC PATCH 13/33] Add a new head.S start-of-day file forbooting on Xen.

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Tue Jul 18 2006 - 06:05:43 EST


On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 00:00 -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> plain text document attachment (i386-head.S)
> When running on Xen, the kernel is started with paging enabled. Also
> don't check for cpu features which are present on all cpus supported
> by Xen.

Hi,

I didn't see much of this last sentence in the actual patch, which is
good, because I just don't see any reason to do that at all; if they
features are there anyway, why not preserve their detection, it's not
hurting and it means you need to be less different "just because"...

Greetings,
Arjan van de Ven

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