From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [patches] [PATCH] [21/22] x86_64: Extend bzImage protocol for relocatable bzImage Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:48:53 -0700 Message-ID: <4636AA95.3090204@zytor.com> References: <20070428175909.1D09D151CA@wotan.suse.de> <46338D72.70402@garzik.org> <4634483E.9030307@goop.org> <46363A68.6080201@goop.org> <463670D1.3000003@goop.org> <463678BA.5080609@zytor.com> <20070501033931.GI25929@bingen.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20070501033931.GI25929@bingen.suse.de> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org To: Andi Kleen Cc: Jeff Garzik , patches@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization , Vivek Goyal , "Eric W. Biederman" List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org Andi Kleen wrote: > > It's still unclear to me why exactly you want to rewrite it? > Are there any particular bugs in the current code you want to fix? > It's more the sheer degree of unmaintainability which is grating on my nerves. There is way too much hocus-pocus going on, and I dare to say that probably noone understands what actually happens in there. In response to the question about what the code looks like, I have put a development snapshot patch at: http://userweb.kernel.org/~hpa/setup-snapshot-2007.04.30.patch Note that it compiles, but it doesn't work yet. This is not a submission, just a "what does the code actually look like" sample. -hpa