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Date:	Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:48:53 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [patches] [PATCH] [21/22] x86_64: Extend bzImage protocol for
 relocatable bzImage

Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> It's still unclear to me why exactly you want to rewrite it?
> Are there any particular bugs in the current code you want to fix?
> 

It's more the sheer degree of unmaintainability which is grating on my
nerves.  There is way too much hocus-pocus going on, and I dare to say
that probably noone understands what actually happens in there.

In response to the question about what the code looks like, I have put a
development snapshot patch at:

http://userweb.kernel.org/~hpa/setup-snapshot-2007.04.30.patch

Note that it compiles, but it doesn't work yet.  This is not a
submission, just a "what does the code actually look like" sample.

	-hpa
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