"H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> >> Unlikely. Unless we expect that this offset will come in non-zero. >> > > You might have to worry about that. Historically, the "zero-page" was > really just the setup code overwritten, and it's still true for a big > chunk of it. > > One of the major changes in my setup code rewrite is to start out with > an all-zero chunk of memory for this.
Well as long as we are in sync with setup.S we are fine. The issue is people generating the real-mode data from scratch, when using the 32bit entry point. Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
