On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 01:37:31PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Zachary Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > i386 Transparent paravirtualization sub-arch patch #8.
> > 
> > Transparent paravirtualization support for MMU operations.
> > 
> > All operations which update live page table entries have been moved to the
> > sub-architecture layer.  Unfortunately, this required yet another parallel 
> > set
> > of pgtable-Nlevel-ops.h files, but this avoids the ugliness of having to use
> > #ifdef's all of the code.
> > 
> > This is pure code motion.  Anything else would be a bug.
> 
> I think that patch is really ugly - it makes hacking VM on i386
> even more painful than it already is because the convolutes the file
> structure even more. Hope it is not applied.

Especially as there's been no user shown for it, similar to all the other
ugly patches from vmware.

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