Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422992AbWJFVzT (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Oct 2006 17:55:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422993AbWJFVzT (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Oct 2006 17:55:19 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:61319 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422992AbWJFVzR (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Oct 2006 17:55:17 -0400 Message-ID: <4526D084.1030700@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 14:54:12 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060913) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Eric W. Biederman" CC: vgoyal@in.ibm.com, Andrew Morton , linux kernel mailing list , Reloc Kernel List , ak@suse.de, horms@verge.net.au, lace@jankratochvil.net, magnus.damm@gmail.com, lwang@redhat.com, dzickus@redhat.com, maneesh@in.ibm.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/12] i386 boot: Add an ELF header to bzImage References: <20061003170032.GA30036@in.ibm.com> <20061003172511.GL3164@in.ibm.com> <20061003201340.afa7bfce.akpm@osdl.org> <20061004214403.e7d9f23b.akpm@osdl.org> <20061004233137.97451b73.akpm@osdl.org> <20061005235909.75178c09.akpm@osdl.org> <20061006183846.GF19756@in.ibm.com> <4526A66B.4030805@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 730 Lines: 22 Eric W. Biederman wrote: > "H. Peter Anvin" writes: > >> Vivek Goyal wrote: >>> Hi Eric, >>> I have added cld in the regenerated patch below. >> No, the cld needs to be earlier. It turns out this isn't the first use of >> string instructions. > > Can we rely on the int calls not setting df? Otherwise we need to clear > df at each use as we do with all of the later uses. > Yes, we can, with a few exceptions. INT saves the flags and IRET restores them. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/