From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761669AbXFBBTA (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jun 2007 21:19:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757307AbXFBBSy (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jun 2007 21:18:54 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:35741 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752268AbXFBBSx (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jun 2007 21:18:53 -0400 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Rusty Russell , Chris Wright , Virtualization Mailing List , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Extending boot protocol & bzImage for paravirt_ops References: <4656FB8F.4090604@goop.org> <466087CF.70708@goop.org> <4660924A.2070009@zytor.com> <466093E3.4010701@goop.org> <46609636.4050208@zytor.com> <4660BBDF.1040007@goop.org> <4660BCF8.7000208@zytor.com> <4660C0CD.5060606@goop.org> <4660C194.4010003@zytor.com> <4660C2F6.6070005@goop.org> Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 19:17:48 -0600 In-Reply-To: <4660C2F6.6070005@goop.org> (Jeremy Fitzhardinge's message of "Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:08:06 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jeremy Fitzhardinge writes: > H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> It would have to, because of the way code32_start is defined to work. >> We don't get control again after its use as a hook. >> > > Who uses that hook? The impression I get is that the execution > environment for jumping to that pointer is not very well defined at present. loadlin. Eric