Re: [PATCH 04/10] i386: clean up bzImage generation

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>   
>> -setup_move_size: .word  0x8000		# size to move, when setup is not
>> +setup_move_size: .word  _setup_size	# size to move, when setup is not
>>  					# loaded at 0x90000. We will move setup
>>  					# to 0x90000 then just before jumping
>>  					# into the kernel. However, only the
>>     
>
> This is WRONG and will break 2.00 protocol bootloaders, if any still
> exist, and quite possibly some 2.01 protocol bootloaders.  There are
> definitiely bootloaders in the field that rely on this implicit value.
>   

Ah, I see.  I didn't see any documentation saying that this must be
0x8000.  Or does _setup_size just have to be <= 0x8000?

>> @@ -246,7 +246,6 @@ setup2:
>>  	jnz	1f
>>  	movw	$0xfffc, %sp	# Make sure we're not zero
>>  1:	movzwl	%sp, %esp	# Clear upper half of %esp
>> -	sti
>>     
>
> Motivation, please?
>   

We talked about this, and you said it was a mistake.  It needn't be in
this patch; it could be separate, or just dropped as far as I'm concerned.

    J
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