On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 3:25 AM, Pekka Enberg <penb...@kernel.org> wrote: > > What is preventing us from making the 64-bit variant also work in flat > mode to make the code consistent and not hiding the differences under > the rug? What am I missing here?
Boot loader could start kernel from 64bit directly from from arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.s::startup_64. initrd can be loaded by 64bit bootloader above 4G. So we even switch back to 32bit flat mode, we still can not access those initrd directly. Thanks Yinghai -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
