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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
	Virtualization Mailing List <virtualization@lists.osdl.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Extending boot protocol & bzImage for paravirt_ops
Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 17:15:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4658CDBA.5000603@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1180224604.29340.4.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Rusty Russell wrote:
> 
> hpa wrote:
>> Do we have *any* environment that enters the 32-bit code with interrupts
>> enabled?  I would think that is unsafe no matter how you do it.
> 
> Yeah, the cli there seems strange: maybe it's safe to simply delete it?
> 

I suspect it was simply put there as a "belts and suspenders" kind of
thing, which is perfectly appropriate.  However, I would be highly
surprised if it would have any users.

	-hpa

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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
	Virtualization Mailing List <virtualization@lists.osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Extending boot protocol & bzImage for paravirt_ops
Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 17:15:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4658CDBA.5000603@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1180224604.29340.4.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Rusty Russell wrote:
> 
> hpa wrote:
>> Do we have *any* environment that enters the 32-bit code with interrupts
>> enabled?  I would think that is unsafe no matter how you do it.
> 
> Yeah, the cli there seems strange: maybe it's safe to simply delete it?
> 

I suspect it was simply put there as a "belts and suspenders" kind of
thing, which is perfectly appropriate.  However, I would be highly
surprised if it would have any users.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-27  0:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-25 15:06 Extending boot protocol & bzImage for paravirt_ops Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-25 16:46 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-25 16:46   ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-26 10:18   ` Rusty Russell
2007-05-26 20:42     ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-26 23:47     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-26 23:47       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-27  0:10       ` Rusty Russell
2007-05-27  0:15         ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-05-27  0:15           ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-26 23:47   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-27  0:14     ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-27  0:19       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-27  0:19         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-30 23:16   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-31  8:08     ` Vivek Goyal
2007-05-31  8:08       ` Vivek Goyal
2007-06-01 20:55   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-01 21:40     ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-01 21:40       ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-01 21:47       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-01 21:57         ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-01 21:57           ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-02  0:37           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-02  0:37             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-02  0:42             ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-02  0:58               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-02  1:02                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-02  1:08                   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-02  1:17                     ` Eric W. Biederman

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