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Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 14:21:43 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <h.peter.anvin@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/23] x86, realmode: realmode.bin infrastructure
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Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>, Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>, Joseph Cihula <joseph.cihula@intel.com>, Shane Wang <shane.wang@intel.com>

On 05/08/2012 02:11 PM, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> 
> Agreed.
> It just hurst my stummack big-time when KBUILD_CFLAGS are manupulated
> in a "random" Makefile.
> Last time we looked at this I failed to come up with something better.
> 

Yes, I agree it sucks big time.  If nothing else the bits in
arch/x86/boot and arch/x86/realmode/rm should be merged at some point.

	-hpa