Re: [PATCH 10/28] i386: map enough initial memory to create lowmem mappings

[Eric W. Biederman]

Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> It would be *trivial* to make a certain number of page table slots
>> available at the end of the head.S-generated map. 
>
> Or you could use a fixmap.

That certain number of page table slots should be the fixmap slots.
If you do that bt_ioremap works, we remove a boatload of special cases
and the code becomes simpler.

Eric
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