Re: [RFC PATCH 16/33] Add support for Xen to entry.S.

From: Chris Wright
Date: Wed Jul 19 2006 - 01:30:01 EST


* Jeremy Fitzhardinge (jeremy@xxxxxxxx) wrote:
> It might be an idea to use something other than STI, CLI and CPUID,
> since the assembler is case-insensitive. We've already had one bug
> where CPUID didn't get replaced and the assembler quietly accepted it as-is.

Yes, having been bitten by that, I'd have to second that.

thanks,
-chris
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