From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932356AbWGRWzh (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jul 2006 18:55:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932359AbWGRWzh (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jul 2006 18:55:37 -0400 Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:46775 "EHLO mail.goop.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932356AbWGRWzg (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jul 2006 18:55:36 -0400 Message-ID: <44BD40F4.2060307@goop.org> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 13:13:40 -0700 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060613) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arjan van de Ven CC: Chris Wright , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton , Rusty Russell , Zachary Amsden , Ian Pratt , Christian Limpach Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 13/33] Add a new head.S start-of-day file for booting on Xen. References: <20060718091807.467468000@sous-sol.org> <20060718091951.689269000@sous-sol.org> <1153217196.3038.28.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> In-Reply-To: <1153217196.3038.28.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Arjan van de Ven wrote: > I didn't see much of this last sentence in the actual patch, which is > good, because I just don't see any reason to do that at all; if they > features are there anyway, why not preserve their detection, it's not > hurting and it means you need to be less different "just because"... > mach-xen/head.S is simpler than kernel/head.S, partly because it doesn't contain the CPU identification and feature tests (cpuid is assumed, though ironically, we don't actually use it). J