Re: [PATCH 28/33] x86_64: Remove the identity mapping as early as possible.

"Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]> writes:

> With the rewrite of the SMP trampoline and the early page
> allocator there is nothing that needs identity mapped pages,
> once we start executing C code.

Cool.

Hopefully that can be done for i386 too. People on other architectures
have been complaining that i386 doesn't catch early NULL pointers.

-Andi
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