On Wednesday 15 November 2006 00:43, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > >> I don't have a configuration I can test this but it compiles cleanly > > > > > > Ugh, now that's a big patch.. and untested, too :-(. > > > > It was very carefully code reviewed at least the first time, > > and the code was put in sync with code that was tested. > > So we had two very different versions of "switch to 64-bit" and now we > have two mostly similar versions. Not a big improvement...
Hmm? That's an improvement in my book. Of course i would prefer truly shared code, but even more similar code is better. > > > Why is PGE no longer required, for example? > > > > PGE is never required. Especially on a temporary page table. > > PGE is an optimization, to make context switches faster. > > HPA tells me it is. He was just nitpicking. Eric is right it is just an optimization (modulo hardware/software bugs) -Andi _______________________________________________ fastboot mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/fastboot
