From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755433AbXEDTD0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 May 2007 15:03:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755439AbXEDTD0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 May 2007 15:03:26 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:59208 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755433AbXEDTDZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 May 2007 15:03:25 -0400 Message-ID: <463B836C.3040500@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 12:03:08 -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> <463B6CCE.4050800@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: > > My notes show 0x5c reserved for additional apm_bios_info, although > of the top of my head I don't know how realistic that is. > > 0x1e4 does look available. > > It has been a long time since I made that choice, and I do see that > looking at struct screen_info I did remember to document that I was > using 0x3c, even in your structure. > > It is all internal to our boot process and external code isn't going > to use it so we can change it if we feel like. > True. -hpa