Re: [PATCH 08/12] i386: Convert the boot time page tables to the kernels native format.

On Monday 30 April 2007 18:15:08 Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> Currently we have a lot of special case code and a lot of limitations
> because we cannot count on the initial boot time page tables being in
> the format our page table handling routines know how to manipulate.
> So this patch rewrites the code that initializes our boot time page
> tables.

Sounds reasonable, but for post .22

-Andi
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