linux-kernel - Re: [x86 setup 31/33] Use the new x86 setup code for i386

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Date:	Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:27:34 +0200
From:	Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...p.cc>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
CC:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, andi@...stfloor.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [x86 setup 31/33] Use the new x86 setup code for i386

H. Peter Anvin schrieb:
> From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>
> 
> This patch hooks the new x86 setup code into the Makefile machinery.  It
> also adapts boot/tools/build.c to a two-file (as opposed to three-file)
> universe, and simplifies it substantially.

[...]

> diff --git a/arch/i386/boot/tools/build.c b/arch/i386/boot/tools/build.c
> index 0579841..886f47d 100644
> --- a/arch/i386/boot/tools/build.c
> +++ b/arch/i386/boot/tools/build.c
> @@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
>  /*
>   *  Copyright (C) 1991, 1992  Linus Torvalds
>   *  Copyright (C) 1997 Martin Mares
> + *  Copyright (C) 2007 H. Peter Anvin
>   */
>  
>  /*
>   * This file builds a disk-image from three different files:
>   *
> - * - bootsect: compatibility mbr which prints an error message if
> - *             someone tries to boot the kernel directly.
>   * - setup: 8086 machine code, sets up system parm
>   * - system: 80386 code for actual system
>   *

You might want to change the word "three" to "two" in the first
line of that comment.

HTH
T.

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