From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161303AbXEDR05 (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 May 2007 13:26:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755427AbXEDR05 (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 May 2007 13:26:57 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:54401 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753530AbXEDR04 (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 May 2007 13:26:56 -0400 Message-ID: <463B6CCE.4050800@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 10:26:38 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Eric W. Biederman" CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Rusty Russell , Andi Kleen , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: always clear bss References: <463AED07.1000505@goop.org> <463B49F0.401@goop.org> <463B5643.1040204@zytor.com> <463B6888.20001@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> Oh, right. And this runs with interrupts off, so you only need one >> dword. That's fine, of course, although the location is a bit awkward. > > Yep. That is what I found when surveyed the available locations. Look at the structure definition I just posted; I think you'll find that using something not in the immediate extension area for the video area would have been preferrable, I would suggest 0x5c or 0x1e4. -hpa