Re: [patch 0/9] Shared ia32 syscall table

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On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 at 01:41:07 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:

> On Tuesday 24 January 2006 01:36, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> > This patch series updates i386 and x86_64 so they share
> > the same ia32 syscall table.  UML already uses the i386
> > table and is updated to use the new shared table as well.
> 
> That's wrong for x86-64. The IA32 syscall table needs
> to point to compat_* version of syscalls, while the native
> IA32 table uses sys_* directly.

How could I have possibly gotten a successful boot of an i386
distro on top of the patched x86_64 kernel if this were wrong?

Did you even look at the patches?
-- 
Chuck

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