Re: x86 setup rewrite tree ready for flamage^W review

From: Vivek Goyal
Date: Fri May 11 2007 - 00:38:01 EST


On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 10:15:21PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I believe the x86 setup tree is now finished. I will turn it into a
> "clean patchset" later this week, but I wanted to get flamed^W feedback
> on it first.
>
> The git tree is at:
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/hpa/linux-2.6-newsetup.git;a=summary
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hpa/linux-2.6-newsetup.git
> ...
>
> ... and a flat patch at ...
>
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hpa/newsetup-36f021b5.patch
>

Wow, reading code in C is so much better than decoding assembly. :-)

Had a quick look, mainly from relocatable kernel code point of view. Yet
to dive deeper.

PHYSICAL_ALIGN needs to be 2MB on x86_64 instead of 1MB.

Thanks
Vivek
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