Re: 2.3.99-3 axp combo patch


Subject: Re: 2.3.99-3 axp combo patch
From: Richard Henderson (rth@twiddle.net)
Date: Thu Mar 30 2000 - 20:31:24 PST


On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 02:17:19AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> To fix that instead of adding still more
> assembler all over the place I removed the assembler from the x86 point
> and I am doing now that in the common code so nobody can forget about that
> anymore.

Ug. This would prevent the bootloader from writing interesting
data into bss addresses (after having cleared the thing of course).

r~



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