linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 01/12] x86, boot: move verify

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Message-ID: <CAE9FiQUaajsWe3854xxUOyPEZ7Dbt3GE0VWs8KvQbtqVrOXQdw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 21 Nov 2012 12:15:28 -0800
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 01/12] x86, boot: move verify_cpu.S after 0x200

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 11:50 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
> The comment is just plain wrong.  It assumes you're loading an ELF file,
> whereas in practice that is rarely true.
>
> This does explain why the poor ABI, though.  A jump table at the
> beginning would have been a lot cleaner.

Can you please have patch to update the comments and point to the API there ?

Thanks

Yinghai
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