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: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:16:10 -0700 Message-ID: <463678BA.5080609@zytor.com> References: <20070428758.455116000@suse.de> <20070428175909.1D09D151CA@wotan.suse.de> <46338D72.70402@garzik.org> <4634483E.9030307@goop.org> <46363A68.6080201@goop.org> <463670D1.3000003@goop.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: 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: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Jeff Garzik , patches@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Vivek Goyal , virtualization List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > I'm tempted to just reload the segments in setup.S, but that might > break loadlin support or one of the other bootloaders that starts the > kernel in 32bit mode so we need to be careful. > We already load all the segments in setup.S. I'm retaining this in my rewrite. Given that I'm rewriting the whole thing, if there are things you want setup.S to do, now is the time to ask. -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 S1754276AbXD3XQb (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:16:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754273AbXD3XQb (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:16:31 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:34325 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754266AbXD3XQa (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:16:30 -0400 Message-ID: <463678BA.5080609@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:16:10 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Eric W. Biederman" CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Jeff Garzik , Andi Kleen , patches@x86-64.org, Vivek Goyal , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rusty Russell , 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> <46363A68.6080201@goop.org> <463670D1.3000003@goop.org> In-Reply-To: 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 Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > I'm tempted to just reload the segments in setup.S, but that might > break loadlin support or one of the other bootloaders that starts the > kernel in 32bit mode so we need to be careful. > We already load all the segments in setup.S. I'm retaining this in my rewrite. Given that I'm rewriting the whole thing, if there are things you want setup.S to do, now is the time to ask. -hpa