On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> typo - read movsw. And patch had movsw and NOT movsd so it was really a
> typo :)
Damn keyboards always conspiring against us. :)
How about this: use movsd (=movsl in at&t) just like the lines above it
do. Strange that noone has noticed that it was done this way, twice,
above.
Attached is the diff which fixes my screwiness in setup.S and the
inconsistency you noticed in head.S.
Chris Noe
(stiker@northlink.com)
--- linux-2.3.36p6/arch/i386/boot/setup.S.orig Tue Jan 4 09:05:56 2000
+++ linux/arch/i386/boot/setup.S Tue Jan 4 09:12:23 2000
@@ -202,9 +202,9 @@
xorb %bh, %bh
movb (497), %bl # get setup sect from bootsect
subw $4, %bx # LILO loads 4 sectors of setup
- shlw $7, %bx # convert to dwords (1sect=2^7 dwords)
+ shlw $8, %bx # convert to words (1sect=2^8 words)
movw %bx, %cx
- shrw $2, %bx # convert to segment
+ shrw $3, %bx # convert to segment
addw $SYSSEG, %bx
movw %bx, %cs:start_sys_seg
# Move rest of setup code/data to here
--- linux-2.3.36p6/arch/i386/kernel/head.S.orig Wed Jan 5 21:37:57 2000
+++ linux/arch/i386/kernel/head.S Wed Jan 5 21:38:08 2000
@@ -133,9 +133,9 @@
movl $ SYMBOL_NAME(empty_zero_page)+2048,%edi
movzwl CL_OFFSET,%esi
addl $(CL_BASE_ADDR),%esi
- movl $2048,%ecx
+ movl $512,%ecx
rep
- movsb
+ movsl
1:
#ifdef __SMP__
checkCPUtype:
-
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