Re: x86 setup code rewrite in C - revised

[Etienne Lorrain]

> This patch set replaces the x86 setup code, which is currently all in
> assembly, with a version written in C, using the ".code16gcc" feature
> of binutils (which has been present since at least 2001.)

 ".code16gcc" is useable since a bit earlier than that, in fact since:
http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2000-04/msg00021.html
 has been fixed, I am using it every other day.

> The new code is vastly easier to read, and, I hope, debug.

 Yes it is, and there is a lot of work in those 33 patch; in very few of
them I would have liked to read something like "inspired by ..." in one of
the C comments (no need to add any E-mail, I already receive enough spam).

 Etienne.

http://gujin.org


	

	
		
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