On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 06:12:43PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >WANG Cong wrote: >>> >>> I have considered myself as a rather unofficial maintainer of this code, >>> and wouldn't mind make it official now when I actually have a job which >>> both cares about and actually can support my upstream Linux activities, >>> which was a major pain for a while. >>> >>> Overall, there is a lot of cleanup which really is needed in the i386 >>> boot process; I have done some work on it already, but more is needed. >> >> Sounds interesting. Can you point me what needs to be done exactly? Maybe I >> can help you. ;) > >There was a long thread on the linux-virtualization list >(@lists.linux-foundation.org) just a few days ago. The biggest single >issue right now is probably how we transition from the bootup page >tables to the "real" init_mm page tables, but the real-mode code also >needs a massive overhaul (especially so since this code can and should >be shared with x86-64); in particular I really want to get rid of the >insane segment handling, where segments are constantly recalculated for >no good reason. > >For the real-mode stuff, I have some patches already in the works for >this. Eric W. Biederman has also done a lot of work in this area. > > -hpa
Thanks for your point. I know little about virtualization, maybe can't help much. But I am interested in other things you mentioned. AFAIK, segments can't be avoided on i386, and Linux uses them very little, how are they recalculated constantly? Regards! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
