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[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] shorten the x86_64 boot setup GDT to what the co

To: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] shorten the x86_64 boot setup GDT to what the comment says
From: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 16:46:00 +0100
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On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 03:01:39PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Hi Andi,
> > 
> > (Assuming you mean: "The gdt table already is 16-byte aligned.")
> > 
> > Hmm. Not in the most recent version of Linus' tree, not even by
> > concidence, and none of the patches in your quilt-current/patches touch
> > x86_64's version of setup.S. Am I missing something?
> 
> The main GDT is. The boot GDT isn't, but it doesn't matter because
> it is only used for a very short time.

Aha, thanks for clearing that up. I agree it is not important to have
the boot GDT aligned, but I think it is preferable to make parts of the
two versions of setup.S equal if possible.

Let's see what Steven Rostedt comes up with.

I find the relocatable image patches interesting. I wonder if one can
get such a kernel 'running' using bochs, freedos, and loadlin ;).

Alexander

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