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

[H. Peter Anvin]

Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 21:36 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > > Seems reasonable to me. I'll integrate your asm diff with the other 
> > > > changes and give it a whirl.
> > > This version boots into userspace on both PAE and !PAE.  You want to 
> > > take it from here?
> > ok, i'll wait for Ian to submit the final (tested) version then. A few 
> > possible complications are: PSE-less boxes, 32-bit PAGEALLOC bootups 
> > with tons of RAM, NX-less boxes and NX-able boxes :)
>
> I'm not sure I can promise that sort of coverage ;-) Will test on what
> hardware I've got available...

I tend to use simulators (e.g. Qemu) quite a bit.  They let you tune 
this kind of stuff.

	-hpa
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