Re: [patches] [PATCH] [21/22] x86_64: Extend bzImage protocol for relocatable bzImage

[Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>]

On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 20:45 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Rusty Russell wrote:
> > 
> > It'd be nicer if there were a "struct boot_params" declaration, but we
> > can't have everything.
> 
> It's in my patchset-under-development.

Ah ha: excellent!

> > +typedef unsigned long long u64;
> >  typedef uint32_t u32;
> >  typedef uint16_t u16;
> >  typedef uint8_t u8;
> 
> Why not uint64_t to go along with all the other defines?

Because then it's a PITA to printf(): x86-64 has uint64_t as "unsigned
long".  So the lguest64 guys will add all kinds of horrible casts.  This
has the same effect, but ironically is more portable.

Rusty.

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