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Message-ID: <m1u04vtz67.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 00:44:00 -0600 From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Horms <horms@...ge.net.au>, Jan Kratochvil <lace@...kratochvil.net>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@...il.com>, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...ibm.com>, Linda Wang <lwang@...hat.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/33] i386 boot: Add serial output support to the decompressor Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de> writes: > On Wednesday 02 August 2006 06:57, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > On x86-64 some trouble comes from it being 32bit code. > That is why I suggested making it 64bit first, which would > avoid many of the problems. :) >> Whichever way I go scrutinizing that possibility carefully is >> a lot of work. > > 64bit conversion would be some work, the rest isn't I think. Except for the head.S work the 64bit conversion was practically a noop. > Alternatively if you don't like it we can just drop these compressor patches. > I don't think they were essential. Agreed. The printing portion wasn't essential. At this point I think dropping the non-essential bits just to get the size of the patchset down makes sense. Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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