Re: Extending boot protocol & bzImage for paravirt_ops

Rusty Russell
2007-05-27T00:10:29Z

On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 00:47 +0100, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Rusty Russell wrote:
> > You also want to skip the cli: perhaps a separate flag for this is
> > appropriate though.
> >
>
> Not a problem for Xen; it will be trapped+emulated (ie, ignored).

Well, I could do that for lguest as a special case, I guess. Seems icky
tho.

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?

Cheers,
Rusty.