Re: [PATCH] shorten the x86_64 boot setup GDT to what the comment says

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On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 02:33:08PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> > Maybe you should consider 16-byte aligning the gdt table too, like
> > i386 does? It doesn't hurt, and as per the comment in the i386-file
> > "16 byte aligment is recommended by intel."
> 
> It already is.

Hi Andi,

(Assuming you mean: "The gdt table already is 16-byte aligned.")

Hmm. Not in the most recent version of Linus' tree, not even by
concidence, and none of the patches in your quilt-current/patches touch
x86_64's version of setup.S. Am I missing something?

Alexander

> -Andi
> 

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Alexander van Heukelum
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