Re: [CFT][PATCH] 2.6.4-rc1 remove x86 boot page tables

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Mon Mar 01 2004 - 14:07:34 EST


On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 23:32, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> I have rewritten and compiled tested the boot_ioremap code but I don't
> have a configuration to test it. This effects the EFI code and the
> numa srat code. It might be worth replacing boot_ioremap with __va()
> to reduce the amount of error checking necessary.

I can probably have someone test it, but you're right, we don't really
need boot_ioremap() if we're going to map in all 4G at boot time. I'd
just prefer that you remove it completely in your patch.

I can test it on some SRAT hardware if you'd like.

-- dave

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