RFC: can we kill the KEEP_SEGMENTS bzImage flag?

[H. Peter Anvin]

>   Bit 6 (write): KEEP_SEGMENTS
>         Protocol: 2.07+
>         - If 0, reload the segment registers in the 32bit entry point.
>         - If 1, do not reload the segment registers in the 32bit entry point.
>                 Assume that %cs %ds %ss %es are all set to flat segments with
>                 a base of 0 (or the equivalent for their environment).

Does anything actually rely on this bit or can we kill it?  I think it
was added as a crutch for paravirtualization, but I'm being told it is
not used...

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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