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From: andrzej-kardas@o2.pl (Andrzej Kardas)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: LILO jump/retf question
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 22:03:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D7BDFA8.40201@o2.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin-Xdorwu2mWdqPUiko7W_BBWbcxQOcvGS05_zP@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

I have been exploring  lilo bootloader last days, and i have a question:

There is piece of code in file bootsect.S like this:

;       jmpi    go,INITSEG         ; this line is commented out
         push    es
         push    #go
         retf

i wonder if are there any benefits of replacing line

jmpi    go,INITSEG  ; which, i think is more readable

by

push    es
push    #go
retf

besides to make people confused?

--
regards
Andrzej Kardas
http://www.linux.mynotes.pl

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-12 21:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-11 10:34 SPI over GPIO Alexandru Caramida
2011-03-11 10:44 ` Tirtha Ghosh
2011-03-11 11:08 ` Kaustubh Ashtekar
2011-03-11 16:31   ` Vic
2011-03-12 21:03     ` Andrzej Kardas [this message]
2011-03-13  8:31       ` LILO jump/retf question Mulyadi Santosa

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