From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757349AbXE0AQQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 May 2007 20:16:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751999AbXE0AQF (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 May 2007 20:16:05 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:56359 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751204AbXE0AQD (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 May 2007 20:16:03 -0400 Message-ID: <4658CDBA.5000603@zytor.com> Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 17:15:54 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rusty Russell CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge , "Eric W. Biederman" , Chris Wright , Virtualization Mailing List , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Extending boot protocol & bzImage for paravirt_ops References: <4656FB8F.4090604@goop.org> <1180174691.650.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4658C72E.9030205@goop.org> <1180224604.29340.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1180224604.29340.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> 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 Rusty Russell wrote: > > hpa wrote: >> Do we have *any* environment that enters the 32-bit code with interrupts >> enabled? I would think that is unsafe no matter how you do it. > > Yeah, the cli there seems strange: maybe it's safe to simply delete it? > I suspect it was simply put there as a "belts and suspenders" kind of thing, which is perfectly appropriate. However, I would be highly surprised if it would have any users. -hpa