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[Xen-devel] Re: [patch 7/8] Add a bootparameter to reserve high linear a

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Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [patch 7/8] Add a bootparameter to reserve high linear address space.
From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 04:10:22 +0200
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On Thursday 01 January 1970 01:15, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > Add a bootparameter to reserve high linear address space for hypervisors.
> > This is necessary to allow dynamically loaded hypervisor modules, which
> 
> Dynamically loaded hypervisor? Do we really want to support that?

I hope so. IMHO letting Linux boot first and then the Hypervisor is 
a better design than the other way round which requires a lot of duplicated 
code.

-Andi

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