Re: [patches] [PATCH] [21/22] x86_64: Extend bzImage protocol forrelocatable bzImage

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Mon Apr 30 2007 - 19:16:48 EST


Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> I'm tempted to just reload the segments in setup.S, but that might
> break loadlin support or one of the other bootloaders that starts the
> kernel in 32bit mode so we need to be careful.
>

We already load all the segments in setup.S. I'm retaining this in my
rewrite.

Given that I'm rewriting the whole thing, if there are things you want
setup.S to do, now is the time to ask.

-hpa
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