From: Carsten O. <co...@de...> - 2007-10-26 08:41:23
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Carsten Otte wrote: > That's why memory allocation/preparation needs to be arch dependent: > i386 needs a memory layout different from userspace page table due to > your argument, and s390 needs to use the userspace page table due to > hardware features we want to exploit. > As Xiantao pointed out, x86 and ia64 can share the same memory setup > code. But s390 and ppc don't. Therefore, I vote for putting it into > x86 for now, and come up with an approach to share between x86 and > ia64 later on. After reading Izik's idea: Maybe we should go Izik's way, and have an i386 special case that we can deprecate later on? so long, Carsten |