Re: [PATCH -v7 1/3] x86 boot: setup data

[H. Peter Anvin]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> With the early reserve code in 
> ftp://firstfloor.org/pub/ak/x86_64/quilt/patches/early-reserve
> and
> ftp://firstfloor.org/pub/ak/x86_64/quilt/patches/early-alloc
> this could be likely done cleaner.

Indeed it could.  For i386, the equivalent code would have another 
significant benefit: reserving memory and then mapping and accessing it 
later would (at least eventually) allow accesses > 4 GB on PAE kernels 
(or with a PSE36 hack, on non-PAE kernels.)

	-hpa
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