From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761027AbXFBBIS (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jun 2007 21:08:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754966AbXFBBIL (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jun 2007 21:08:11 -0400 Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:36926 "EHLO mail.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752902AbXFBBIK (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jun 2007 21:08:10 -0400 Message-ID: <4660C2F6.6070005@goop.org> Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:08:06 -0700 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "H. Peter Anvin" CC: "Eric W. Biederman" , Rusty Russell , Chris Wright , Virtualization Mailing List , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Extending boot protocol & bzImage for paravirt_ops References: <4656FB8F.4090604@goop.org> <466087CF.70708@goop.org> <4660924A.2070009@zytor.com> <466093E3.4010701@goop.org> <46609636.4050208@zytor.com> <4660BBDF.1040007@goop.org> <4660BCF8.7000208@zytor.com> <4660C0CD.5060606@goop.org> <4660C194.4010003@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <4660C194.4010003@zytor.com> 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 H. Peter Anvin wrote: > It would have to, because of the way code32_start is defined to work. > We don't get control again after its use as a hook. > Who uses that hook? The impression I get is that the execution environment for jumping to that pointer is not very well defined at present. J