From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: Extending boot protocol & bzImage for paravirt_ops Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 17:15:54 -0700 Message-ID: <4658CDBA.5000603@zytor.com> References: <4656FB8F.4090604@goop.org> <1180174691.650.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4658C72E.9030205@goop.org> <1180224604.29340.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1180224604.29340.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> 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: Rusty Russell Cc: Chris Wright , Virtualization Mailing List , "Eric W. Biederman" , Linux Kernel Mailing List List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.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