Re: [PATCH] THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit (ping)

Alon Bar-Lev
2006-08-28T19:24:54Z

On 8/28/06, Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> wrote:
> No reason. I was just trying to be careful, not leaving data in the
> upper bits of those registers going uninitialized. If we know they're
> not being used ever, then it's not a problem. But I don't think
> that's the source of the command line size concern, is it?

Since the cmd_line_ptr is 32bit, we can load the lower 16bits into si,
ignoring the upper 16bits, or we can use esi for all references.
I think using esi for all references is cleaner...

Best Regards,
Alon Bar-Lev.