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On 01/28/2011 08:58 AM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> On 01/27/2011 07:38 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> [Adding Jeremy]
>>
>> Jeremy, would this break Xen?  As far as I know, Xen is the main user
>> of skipping segment register initialization.
> 
> Xen doesn't go through head_*.S at all.
> 

OK, I guess it's actually lguest which needs this feature?

	-hpa