From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: always clear bss
Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 12:03:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <463B836C.3040500@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1hcqspg7c.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> My notes show 0x5c reserved for additional apm_bios_info, although
> of the top of my head I don't know how realistic that is.
>
> 0x1e4 does look available.
>
> It has been a long time since I made that choice, and I do see that
> looking at struct screen_info I did remember to document that I was
> using 0x3c, even in your structure.
>
> It is all internal to our boot process and external code isn't going
> to use it so we can change it if we feel like.
>
True.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-04 19:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-04 8:21 [PATCH] i386: always clear bss Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-04 11:46 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-04 14:57 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-04 15:22 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-04 15:26 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-04 15:45 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-04 15:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-04 17:05 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-04 17:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-04 17:15 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-04 17:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-04 19:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-04 19:03 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-05-04 23:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-05 1:45 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-05 1:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-05 2:11 ` Eric W. Biederman
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