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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: always clear bss
Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 16:17:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <463BBEEE.3000903@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1hcqspg7c.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>

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.
> 

I don't see the actual instruction that does that anywhere in my tree,
which was branched from Andi's "for-linus" git tree, but I have reserved
0x1e4 for that purpose as "scratch".

	-hpa

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-04 23:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-04  8:21 [PATCH] i386: always clear bss Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-04 11:46 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-04 14:57   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-04 15:22     ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-04 15:26       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-04 15:45         ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-04 15:50     ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-04 17:05       ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-04 17:08         ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-04 17:15           ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-04 17:26             ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-04 19:00               ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-04 19:03                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-04 23:17                 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-05-05  1:45                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-05  1:49                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-05  2:11                       ` Eric W. Biederman

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