Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Hmm. If we made that:
> mov %cs, %eax
> add $0x10, %eax
> mov %eax, %ds
>
> That is likely even backwards compatible. If you don't mind having a fixed
> offset between the code and the data segments. As I recall code and data
> are not interchangeable.
>
Yes, that's just bogus thinko on my part.
> I'm trying to remember the reason for the reloads.
>
> As I recall loadlin intercepts code32_start from head.S and so it
> can do things just after we have switched to protected mode. Because
> historically we didn't load the segments before this jump loadlin had
> to do it. The code of loadlin appears to reload all of the segments
> just like head.S does and then not touch them.
>
> My two bootloaders that enter the kernel at the 32bit entry point already
> load the segments as well.
>
> Gujin looks like it loads just %es and %ds.
>
We should be able to make do with that until we've got our own gdt.
> It is hard to tell with elilo what it sets up, it preserves the
> descriptors from EFI, but sets up a linux boot protocol gdt.
>
? But the cached descriptors are still the EFI ones?
> Since setup.S finally does the right thing in loading segment
> registers. It looks to me like we need to sit down and document
> the 32bit kernel interface, as it is today, and then extend
> things to just replicate %ds into the other segments, and kill
> any lss instructions.
>
Yes.
> At the same time we are doing this it would be good to drop our
> boot protocol version into an ELF note so people booting vmlinux
> can discover when we have relaxed various restrictions and which
> fields in the real mode data we support.
>
Do you mean the have the kernel expose its max supported version for
bootloaders to inspect?
J
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