On Tuesday 24 January 2006 09:53, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
>
> 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?
No, because they arrived more than an hour after the initial
description and i just replied to that.
Looking at the patch I must say I prefer the old straight
table over your #define mess.
-Andi
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