From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.5.12] x86 Boot enhancements, 32bit entries 6/11
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 04:53:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020427045314.A597@toy.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m11ycuzk4q.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> <m1wuumy5eo.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> <m1sn5ay5ac.fsf_-_@frodo.biederman.org> <m1offyy55x.fsf_-_@frodo.biederman.org> <m1it66y4xz.fsf_-_@frodo.biederman.org> <m1elguy4pj.fsf_-_@frodo.biederman.org>
Hi!
> This patch cleans up the 32bit kernel entry points so they don't
> assume who their caller is, making them usable by other than setup.S
>
> For arch/i386/kernel/head.S this untangles the secondary cpu and the bootstrap
> entry points making the code more readable.
Hmm, but making variables called eax, ebx, ... is surely going to confuse
someone. What about bootup_eax, .. ?
> + /*
> + * Save the initial registers
> + */
> + movl %eax, eax
> + movl %ebx, ebx
> + movl %ecx, ecx
> + movl %edx, edx
> + movl %esi, esi
> + movl %edi, edi
> + movl %esp, esp
> + movl %ebp, ebp
> +
> + /*
> + * Setup the stack
> + */
> + movl stack_start, %esp
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-06 20:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-02 14:42 [PATCH 2.5.12] x86 Boot enhancements, boot params 1/11 Eric W. Biederman
2002-04-27 2:56 ` Pavel Machek
2002-05-06 10:13 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-05-06 15:19 ` Pavel Machek
2002-05-06 17:55 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-05-06 20:20 ` Pavel Machek
2002-05-02 14:45 ` [PATCH 2.5.12] x86 Boot enhancements, linker fixes 2/11 Eric W. Biederman
2002-05-02 14:48 ` [PATCH 2.5.12] x86 Boot enhancements, bzImage/zImage code differentiation 3/11 Eric W. Biederman
2002-05-02 14:51 ` [PATCH 2.5.12] x86 Boot enhancements, constants 4/11 Eric W. Biederman
2002-05-02 14:55 ` [PATCH 2.5.12] x86 Boot enhancements, heap 5/11 Eric W. Biederman
2002-05-02 15:00 ` [PATCH 2.5.12] x86 Boot enhancements, 32bit entries 6/11 Eric W. Biederman
2002-04-27 4:53 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2002-05-02 15:05 ` [PATCH 2.5.12] x86 Boot enhancements, footprint reduction 7/11 Eric W. Biederman
2002-05-02 15:07 ` [PATCH 2.5.12] x86 Boot enhancements, build beancounting 8/11 Eric W. Biederman
2002-05-02 15:11 ` [PATCH 2.5.12] x86 Boot enhancements, boot protocol 2.04 9/11 Eric W. Biederman
2002-05-02 15:13 ` [PATCH 2.5.12] x86 Boot enhancements, LinuxBIOS support 10/11 Eric W. Biederman
2002-05-02 15:15 ` [PATCH 2.5.12] x86 Boot enhancements, bzElf support 11/11 Eric W. Biederman
2002-05-02 20:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-05-02 20:39 ` [PATCH 2.5.12] x86 Boot enhancements, boot protocol 2.04 9/11 H. Peter Anvin
2002-05-02 20:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
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