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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 8/8] 2.6.17: scan DMI early

To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 8/8] 2.6.17: scan DMI early
From: Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 18:11:57 +0000
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On 5/3/07 15:51, "Keir Fraser" <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> While shuffling quite a few things around, this gets us closer to native,
>> which clearly had a reason to do the DMI scan early.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Taken, but a few comments:

I had a go at cleaning this up myself and it isn't as straightforward as I
first thought (can't get rid of alloc_static_page() for example!). But I did
simplify the fixmap pagetable allocation and initialisation a bit, at least.

 -- Keir


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