From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>,
Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com>,
Max Inux <maxinux@bigfoot.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bzImage ~ 900K with i386 test11-pre2
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 12:29:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001112122910.A2366@athlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011111644110.1036-100000@saturn.homenet> <m1ofzmcne5.fsf@frodo.biederman.org>
In-Reply-To: <m1ofzmcne5.fsf@frodo.biederman.org>; from ebiederm@xmission.com on Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 12:35:46PM -0700
On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 12:35:46PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> With respect to .bss issues we should clear it before we set up page tables.
We could sure do that but that's a minor win since we still need a
large mapping (more than 1 pagetable) for the bootmem allocator. (and we need
at least 1 pagetable setup as ident mapping at 0x100000 for the instruction
where we enable paging)
> We also do stupid things like set segment registers before setting up
> a GDT. Yes we set them in setup.S but it is still a stupid non-obvious
^^^^
I think you meant: we set "it" (gdt_48) up.
> dependency. We we can do it in setup.S
I removed that dependency in x86-64.
Andrea
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Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-10 23:37 bzImage ~ 900K with i386 test11-pre2 Robert Lynch
2000-11-10 23:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-11 2:25 ` Max Inux
2000-11-11 3:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-11 5:28 ` Chmouel Boudjnah
2000-11-11 11:27 ` Max Inux
2000-11-11 11:28 ` Jan Niehusmann
2000-11-11 11:38 ` bzImage ~ 900K with i386 test11-pre2, I stand corrected Max Inux
2000-11-11 13:49 ` bzImage ~ 900K with i386 test11-pre2 James A. Sutherland
2000-11-11 20:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-11 11:36 ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-11-11 11:38 ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-11-11 11:52 ` Max Inux
2000-11-11 14:42 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-11 14:51 ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-11-11 16:26 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-11 16:46 ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-11-11 18:47 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-11 19:35 ` Eric W. Biederman
2000-11-12 11:29 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2000-11-12 13:14 ` Eric W. Biederman
2000-11-12 15:37 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-12 15:44 ` Andi Kleen
2000-11-12 16:33 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-12 18:57 ` Eric W. Biederman
2000-11-12 19:33 ` Andi Kleen
2000-11-16 17:43 ` Eric W. Biederman
2000-11-12 22:30 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-12 19:20 ` Eric W. Biederman
2000-11-12 23:03 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-11 20:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-12 16:22 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-11 16:05 ` Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2000-11-11 17:27 ` Jeff Garzik
2000-11-14 14:02 ` Werner Almesberger
2000-11-11 5:47 ` Peter Samuelson
2000-11-11 14:30 ` Andi Kleen
2000-11-11 15:43 ` Thomas Köhler
2000-11-11 18:03 ` Robert Lynch
2000-11-11 18:30 ` Andi Kleen
2000-11-11 18:57 ` Robert Lynch
2000-11-11 20:35 ` Andi Kleen
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