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Message-ID: <472E5DAB.8080804@zytor.com>
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 16:02:51 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
Mikael Petterson <mikpe@...uu.se>,
Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86 setup: correct booting on 486DX4
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> And Linux always did it correctly. I don't understand why you disagree,
> and why Jeremy says
>
> "Having successfully broken the rules for a long time so far,
> maybe we can get away with still cutting corners..."
>
> when the fact is, we used to *not* cut corners, we used to *not* break the
> rules, and what we used to do (a short jump immediately after setting PE)
> was exactly what Intel always said you should do, and there is no question
> what-so-ever about it.
>
Apparently because the Intel documentation disagrees with itself.
That's all.
-hpa
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