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Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 19:40:54 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: tell the world boot_params is 16-byte aligned
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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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