Re: Submitted patch, what to do next

Hi, The upstream developers may reply to you in 1-3 days, so I think they have ignored your patch. You can send it again. HaoLee, Regards___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org

Re: A question about decompressing kernel on boot

leaq (_bss-8)(%rip), %rsi leaq (_bss-8)(%rbx), %rdi movq $_bss /* - $startup_32 */, %rcx shrq $3, %rcx std rep movsq cld The movsq instruction copys 8 bytes each time and for the first time it will copy [_bss-8, _bss) to the new location. If we don't minus 8, the data in [_bss,