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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 8 of 13] Add a bootparameter to reserve	high 
 
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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 8 of 13] Add a bootparameter to reserve	high linear address space for hypervisors | 
 
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Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> | 
 
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Wed, 2 Aug 2006 06:21:22 +0200 | 
 
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>       I think you misunderstand the purpose of parse_early_param?  It is
> designed to be called directly by the arch at some point (it is
> idempotent, so the second call in init/main.c does nothing if the arch
> has called it).  ie. in i386, it replaces parse_cmdline_early().
Ah I didn't realize that. But why is there a second call in init/main.c?  
Looks like a big hack to me. Someone was too lazy to add it to all 
architectures?
-Andi
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- [Xen-devel] [PATCH 12 of 13] Pass the mm struct into the pgd_free	code so the mm is available here, (continued)
 
- [Xen-devel] [PATCH 3 of 13] Implement always-locked bit ops,	for memory shared with an SMP hypervisor, Jeremy Fitzhardinge
 
- [Xen-devel] [PATCH 8 of 13] Add a bootparameter to reserve high	linear address space for hypervisors, Jeremy Fitzhardinge
- [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 8 of 13] Add a bootparameter to reserve high	linear address space for hypervisors, Andi Kleen
- [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 8 of 13] Add a bootparameter to reserve high	linear address space for hypervisors, Rusty Russell
 - [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 8 of 13] Add a bootparameter to reserve high	linear address space for hypervisors, Andi Kleen
 - Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 8 of 13] Add a bootparameter to reserve	high linear address space for hypervisors, Rusty Russell
 - Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 8 of 13] Add a bootparameter to reserve	high linear address space for hypervisors,
Andi Kleen <=
 - Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 8 of 13] Add a bootparameter to reserve	high linear address space for hypervisors, Rusty Russell
 - Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 8 of 13] Add a bootparameter to reserve	high linear address space for hypervisors, Andi Kleen
 - Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 8 of 13] Add a bootparameter to reserve	high linear address space for hypervisors, Rusty Russell
 - Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 8 of 13] Add a bootparameter to reserve	high linear address space for hypervisors, Andi Kleen
 - [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Allow early_param and identical __setup to	exist, Rusty Russell
 
- [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/2] Replace i386 open-coded cmdline parsing with	early_param/parse_early_param, Rusty Russell
 - [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/2] Replace i386 open-coded cmdline parsing	with early_param/parse_early_param, Andi Kleen
 
  
  
 
[Xen-devel] [PATCH 7 of 13] Make __FIXADDR_TOP variable to allow it	to make space for a hypervisor, Jeremy Fitzhardinge
[Xen-devel] [PATCH 6 of 13] Roll all the cpuid asm into one __cpuid	call, Jeremy Fitzhardinge
[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 0 of 13] Basic infrastructure patches for a	paravirtualized kernel, Andi Kleen
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