From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762147AbXGJRcz (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:32:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762227AbXGJRcj (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:32:39 -0400 Received: from [212.12.190.11] ([212.12.190.11]:34420 "EHLO raad.intranet" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760165AbXGJRci (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:32:38 -0400 From: Al Boldi To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: x86 setup code rewrite in C Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:32:29 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200707102032.29124.a1426z@gawab.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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