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Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:20:27 +0300
From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [Q] x86 - boot/header.S
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Hi Peter, Sam,

could you take a look on x86/boot/header.S:280 please?

# Zero the bss
	movw	$__bss_start, %di
	movw	$_end+3, %cx
	xorl	%eax, %eax
	subw	%di, %cx
	shrw	$2, %cx
	rep; stosl

I wonder why is $_end there instead of $__bss_stop?
Well, accroding to vmlinux_32.lsd both _end and __bss_stop
are the same BUT __bss_stop is more convenient methink.
Would it be usefull to change?

		- Cyrill -