On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 08:55:22AM +0200, Tristan Gingold wrote: > Le Jeudi 28 Septembre 2006 03:27, Horms a écrit : > > On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 11:52:12AM +0200, Tristan Gingold wrote: > > > Linux and xen call efi in real mode if set_virtual_address_map fails. > > > You may add an option in both xen and linux to force calling efi in real > > > mode. This should be really simple and you will be able to make progress. > > > > Great, I will test this out and see how it goes. > > > > > The only possible drawback is performance. > > > > What kind of performance issues would you expect? > Making EFI calls in physical mode is slower: Linux must switch from and to > virtual mode. > > However EFI calls are very unfrequent so the impact should be almost nul. Thats what I was thinking. Lets see how it pans out. -- Horms H: http://www.vergenet.net/~horms/ W: http://www.valinux.co.jp/en/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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