Re: [PATCH] [30/30] x86_64: Add missing !X86_PAE dependincy to the2G/2G split.

[Mark Lord]

William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> ..
> On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 09:32:33AM -0400, Mark Lord wrote:
> > You need to go search the archives and read the *extensive* thread
> > on this from when it was introduced.  Lots of high profile kernel
> > developers were in on this one.
>
> Various good points were raised. The NX bit requiring
> 3-level pagetables suggests that 3-level pagetables without highmem
> would be valuable, at which point the unaligned splits to avoid highmem
> with 3-level pagetables gain additional relevance. I'll queue that up
> to be written along with split pmd affairs, and check for features
> dependent on 4-level pagetables, too.

Excellent!  That would be super to have in there, William.

Cheers!
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