From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755332AbXEDOTJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 May 2007 10:19:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755341AbXEDOTJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 May 2007 10:19:09 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:34195 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755332AbXEDOTI (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 May 2007 10:19:08 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] Replace paravirt_probe with "platform type" boot header field From: Rusty Russell To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Andi Kleen , Chris Wright , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Zachary Amsden , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , "H. Peter Anvin" , lkml - Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: <1178283582.23670.67.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 00:18:49 +1000 Message-Id: <1178288329.23670.86.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 08:01 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > We should place that initial branch right after startup_32, > we don't need the startup_paravirt at all now. > > ENTRY(startup_32) > #ifdef CONFIG_LGUEST_GUEST > cmpl $1, 0x23c(%esi) > je lguest_init > #endif Hi Eric! Makes sense to me, but I wasn't sure... do we need to check for old bootloader versions and such? Thanks, Rusty.