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Message-ID: <4672BC3E.6080308@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:20:14 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org> CC: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...ibm.com>, Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>, v12n <virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org>, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Xen-Devel <xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/10] i386: clean up bzImage generation Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > -setup_move_size: .word 0x8000 # size to move, when setup is not > +setup_move_size: .word _setup_size # size to move, when setup is not > # loaded at 0x90000. We will move setup > # to 0x90000 then just before jumping > # into the kernel. However, only the This is WRONG and will break 2.00 protocol bootloaders, if any still exist, and quite possibly some 2.01 protocol bootloaders. There are definitiely bootloaders in the field that rely on this implicit value. > @@ -246,7 +246,6 @@ setup2: > jnz 1f > movw $0xfffc, %sp # Make sure we're not zero > 1: movzwl %sp, %esp # Clear upper half of %esp > - sti Motivation, please? -hpa - 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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