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From: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: x86 setup code rewrite in C
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:32:29 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200707102032.29124.a1426z@gawab.com> (raw)

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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.)
>
> The new code is vastly easier to read, and, I hope, debug.  It should
> be noted that I found a fair number of minor bugs while going through
> this code, and have attempted to correct them.

I have an i810 which supends-to-ram just fine, but when booted over pxe it 
just hangs.  Will these patches fix this, and if so, is there an easy 
tar-ball against 2.6.22?


Thanks!

--
Al


             reply	other threads:[~2007-07-10 17:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-10 17:32 Al Boldi [this message]
2007-07-10 20:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-10 21:07   ` Al Boldi
2007-07-10 21:13     ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-10 21:33       ` Randy Dunlap
2007-07-10 21:38         ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-11 11:35           ` Chris Smith
2007-07-13 22:33             ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-10 21:36       ` Adrian Bunk
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-07-10  2:51 H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-10  4:24 ` Yinghai Lu
2007-07-10  4:39   ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-10  5:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-10 16:24 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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