"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> writes: > On 12/28/2010 08:13 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> writes: >>> >>> Well, the trampoline is optional only on 32 bits, and with my changes, >>> it would be unconditional. >> >> What motivates your trampoline rewrite? >> > > The fact that so far four different pieces of code have low memory > trampolines, and each is implemented differently. Furthermore, I'm > currently being forced to work on a fifth. This unifies all that code, > but it also makes it unconditional since at least reboot=bios is always > going to need to be there. That makes some sense. I remember seeing your complaining about how many different flavors of physical page tables we have. When your patches are ready cc me and I will be happy to look them over and see if I can spot anything you might have missed. Eric
