Re: Specification of BTINFO_CONSOLE value in bootinfo.h

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 10:21:11PM +0200, deco33000%yandex.com@localhost wrote:
> Convergence of efforts, cleanness of design, well understood by
> everybody, tackles the a20 gate, and all the _very_ boring heritage
> for us.

All of that is very well understood and any kernel with least 15 years
of x86 history knows how to do it. On the other hand, for getting a
64bit kernel to work with Xen, you have to jump through ridiculous holes
like faking a 32bit image. Which is completely artifical and you still
only get half way in the CPU init sequence. As most of the rest of the
setup is *still* needed for support for ACPI S3, there is just very
little reason to go to the pain in first place.

Joerg