From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263107AbUB0Smy (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Feb 2004 13:42:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262939AbUB0Slu (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Feb 2004 13:41:50 -0500 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([63.209.29.2]:55501 "EHLO hera.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262935AbUB0Sla (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Feb 2004 13:41:30 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin) Subject: Re: BOOT_CS Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 18:41:26 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Transmeta Corporation, Santa Clara CA Message-ID: References: <20040226121713.21924.qmail@web11804.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: terminus.zytor.com 1077907286 18767 63.209.29.3 (27 Feb 2004 18:41:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@terminus.zytor.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 18:41:26 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Followup to: <20040226121713.21924.qmail@web11804.mail.yahoo.com> By author: =?iso-8859-1?q?Etienne=20Lorrain?= In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > This interface is nice when the VCPI is loaded and running, but if > only EMM386 is loaded and VCPI not active you cannot use it. > This has nothing to do with anything. You're totally confused. I'm referring to a hook in the kernel; it has nothing to do with VCPI, EMM386 or LOADLIN, except that the latter uses the kernel interface when using VCPI. -hpa