Re: Merge Xen (the hypervisor) into Linux

From: Samuel Thibault
Date: Thu Jun 04 2009 - 20:09:38 EST


Linus Torvalds, le Thu 04 Jun 2009 11:53:45 -0700, a écrit :
> On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Christian Tramnitz wrote:
> >
> > What a great idea, and while we're doing this let's also drop support
> > for legacy stuff like PATA and i8042 in mainline. Noone will need it
> > anyway because their successors are on the market for years... let's
> > just take it for granted that everyone is using SATA and USB nowadays!
>
> Have you noticed how PATA and i8042 don't screw up anything else?

Right. We should get rid of all the HIGHMEM kmap crap that cripples all
the code.

Samuel
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