From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Horms <horms@verge.net.au>,
       Jan Kratochvil <lace@jankratochvil.net>,
       "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>,
       Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>, Linda Wang <lwang@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/33] i386 boot: Add serial output support to the decompressor
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Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 00:44:00 -0600
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Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> writes:

> On Wednesday 02 August 2006 06:57, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> On x86-64 some trouble comes from it being 32bit code. 
> That is why I suggested making it 64bit first, which would
> avoid many of the problems.

:)
  
>> Whichever way I go scrutinizing that possibility carefully is
>> a lot of work.
>
> 64bit conversion would be some work, the rest isn't I think.

Except for the head.S work the 64bit conversion was practically a noop.

> Alternatively if you don't like it we can just drop these compressor patches.
> I don't think they were essential.

Agreed.  The printing portion wasn't essential.

At this point I think dropping the non-essential bits just to get the size
of the patchset down makes sense.

Eric
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