Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] Replace paravirt_probe with "platform type" boot header field

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> Unlikely.  Unless we expect that this offset will come in non-zero.
> 

You might have to worry about that.  Historically, the "zero-page" was
really just the setup code overwritten, and it's still true for a big
chunk of it.

One of the major changes in my setup code rewrite is to start out with
an all-zero chunk of memory for this.

	-hpa
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