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From: Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@greatcn.org>
To: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Does Flushing the Queue after PG REALLY a Necessity?
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 17:17:18 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <403B169E.4000006@greatcn.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040223205522.66d7fb4f.rddunlap@osdl.org>

Randy.Dunlap wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 10:36:07 +0800 Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote:
> 
> | Right, I also think removing the flush code is risky. Thanks very much, 
> | chapter 18 is what i was looking for. I recalled in an old intel 
> | booklet, named like something 386 system guide, says JMP after PG as 
> | well as PE. But I didn't have that book at hand and didn't find any e-doc.
> 
> I guess that's the 80386 System Software Writer's Guide.
> Ch. 6: Initialization.
> Yes, it does JMP after setting PE and after enabling PG.
> Any JMP.

Yes, it's that booklet, very thin.

> 
> | However, in 18.27.3, "The sequence bounded by the MOV and JMP 
> | instructions should be identity" implies no JMP is also viable 
> | practically. But we needn't to be that pedantic.
> | 
> | If no any reason for the two jumps, the code should be fixed to remains 
> | only ONE near jump.


Btw, could you please do not show others email address when you reply? 
Change your mail client's configuration. I don't like my this email 
address be grabbed by spammers. thanks


	Coywolf



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  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-24  9:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-21  5:47 BOOT_CS H. Peter Anvin
2004-02-21 12:43 ` BOOT_CS Coywolf Qi Hunt
2004-02-21 16:32   ` BOOT_CS Jamie Lokier
2004-02-23  4:43     ` [PATCH] BOOT_CS Coywolf Qi Hunt
2004-02-23 14:30       ` Jamie Lokier
2004-02-23 15:24         ` Rene Herman
2004-02-24  3:11         ` [PATCH] Remove the extra jmp Coywolf Qi Hunt
2004-02-24  3:30           ` Brian Gerst
2004-02-24 10:10             ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2004-02-22 15:13 ` BOOT_CS Eric W. Biederman
2004-02-22 19:47   ` BOOT_CS H. Peter Anvin
2004-02-22 22:05     ` BOOT_CS Eric W. Biederman
2004-02-23 10:27 ` Does Flushing the Queue after PG REALLY a Necessity? Coywolf Qi Hunt
2004-02-23 15:18   ` Philippe Elie
2004-02-24  2:36     ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2004-02-24  3:10       ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-02-24  4:55       ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-02-24  9:17         ` Coywolf Qi Hunt [this message]
2004-02-24 11:21           ` Herbert Poetzl
2004-02-24 11:33             ` Coywolf Qi Hunt

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