Re: [PATCH RFC] x86: add brk allocation for very, very early allocations

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Date: Fri Feb 27 2009 - 16:41:18 EST


H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Cool; just wanted it noted what the rules were. Even more so the reason
to fold as many possible uses as possible into this new mechanism.

Yes, I just converted i386 pagetable construction and dmi_alloc(). Boots under qemu.

P.S. Could you send me the updates to the dom0 patches you said you had?

Was just tidying them up for posting but got slightly sidetracked. (The TSS/io-bitmap changes are a prelude to the dom0 patches though.)

J
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