Re: [BUG] broken ebba638ae723d8a8fc2f7abce5ec18b688b791d7

From: Rusty Russell
Date: Wed Feb 02 2011 - 20:19:46 EST


On Thu, 3 Feb 2011 09:18:21 am H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 01/28/2011 08:58 AM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> > On 01/27/2011 07:38 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >> [Adding Jeremy]
> >>
> >> Jeremy, would this break Xen? As far as I know, Xen is the main user
> >> of skipping segment register initialization.
> >
> > Xen doesn't go through head_*.S at all.
> >
>
> OK, I guess it's actually lguest which needs this feature?

Well, we already move __BOOT_DS into every other segment reg, so I don't think
%ss will break...

Checking...
Rusty.
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