From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [patches] [PATCH] [21/22] x86_64: Extend bzImage protocol for relocatable bzImage Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 21:38:15 -0700 Message-ID: <463572B7.90202@zytor.com> References: <20070428758.455116000@suse.de> <20070428175909.1D09D151CA@wotan.suse.de> <46338D72.70402@garzik.org> <4634483E.9030307@goop.org> <1177902195.30071.203.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1177902195.30071.203.camel@localhost.localdomain> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org To: Rusty Russell Cc: Jeff Garzik , patches@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Vivek Goyal , "Eric W. Biederman" , virtualization List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org Rusty Russell wrote: > > Dammit, Eric, you spend a lot of time using words like "insane" where > you mean we didn't do everything all at once. > > It's *not* clear that using %esi is sane, but nothing in the current > code prevents that. > Why not? -hpa From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161630AbXD3Eiv (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:38:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161633AbXD3Eiv (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:38:51 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:45840 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161630AbXD3Eiu (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:38:50 -0400 Message-ID: <463572B7.90202@zytor.com> Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 21:38:15 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rusty Russell CC: "Eric W. Biederman" , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Jeff Garzik , Andi Kleen , patches@x86-64.org, Vivek Goyal , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization Subject: Re: [patches] [PATCH] [21/22] x86_64: Extend bzImage protocol for relocatable bzImage References: <20070428758.455116000@suse.de> <20070428175909.1D09D151CA@wotan.suse.de> <46338D72.70402@garzik.org> <4634483E.9030307@goop.org> <1177902195.30071.203.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1177902195.30071.203.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Rusty Russell wrote: > > Dammit, Eric, you spend a lot of time using words like "insane" where > you mean we didn't do everything all at once. > > It's *not* clear that using %esi is sane, but nothing in the current > code prevents that. > Why not? -hpa