On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 12:20 AM, Cyrill Gorcunov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Peter, Sam, > > could you take a look on x86/boot/header.S:280 please? > > # Zero the bss > movw $__bss_start, %di > movw $_end+3, %cx > xorl %eax, %eax > subw %di, %cx > shrw $2, %cx > rep; stosl > > I wonder why is $_end there instead of $__bss_stop? > Well, accroding to vmlinux_32.lsd both _end and __bss_stop > are the same BUT __bss_stop is more convenient methink. > Would it be usefull to change?
we should have head32.c like head64.c and x86_32_start_kernel. Eric's patch long time ago... YH -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
