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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: tell the world boot_params is 16-byte aligned
Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 19:40:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150508174054.GD3904@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <853B4FF2-FAC4-4FE3-90F5-D1CFD18B10F7@zytor.com>

On Fri, May 08, 2015 at 09:26:49AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> NAK.  This could break in the case of careless bootloaders...

Please elaborate. You mean, they'll go with the max alignment too and
search boot_params there?

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-08 17:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-08 13:42 [PATCH] x86: tell the world boot_params is 16-byte aligned Rasmus Villemoes
2015-05-08 14:24 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-05-08 16:23   ` Rasmus Villemoes
2015-05-08 16:26     ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-05-08 17:40       ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2015-05-08 18:36         ` H. Peter Anvin

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