From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934122AbXGLNZB (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:25:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761216AbXGLNYy (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:24:54 -0400 Received: from web26914.mail.ukl.yahoo.com ([217.146.177.81]:38882 "HELO web26914.mail.ukl.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1761151AbXGLNYx (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:24:53 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 399 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:24:52 EDT DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.fr; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=3psNaN/+hm0L4611Otc4vcxLSJapuk+J/gdW4pwwCdDnocvcrzYjNWozAtiMr89DLR/gigWG/IfJGb2utsy8GE74c0kB1fE+IR55r4hK58PbrgWSZzCczBuRF7i4b71vBhg124S/y+zq2nfhXRc1CNm3e1cUfKKCV1ZDNHF+bT8=; X-YMail-OSG: ad3y4G8VM1l2uMlVSxIVMsygI1JShR4ATryKjVa0Ju44DcT61lh9QwnPN6nGrvgX6M4VwvzQuczv1HUMpaYdETdYDwe6HywP786bDHGdAxAC Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:18:12 +0200 (CEST) From: Etienne Lorrain Subject: Re: x86 setup code rewrite in C - revised To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: hpa@zytor.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <464301.12723.qm@web26914.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 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 ___________________________________________________________________________ Découvrez une nouvelle façon d'obtenir des réponses à toutes vos questions ! Profitez des connaissances, des opinions et des expériences des internautes sur Yahoo! Questions/Réponses http://fr.answers.yahoo.com