Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] x86/fred: Fix INT80 emulation for FRED

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Apr 16 2024 - 14:28:24 EST


On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 11:23:24AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> (I think there is actually less than half the code left. This could be
> further cleaned up by inlining the common code,

Yeah, was just thinking about that too. I'd say, though, let's let the
FRED code settle, we start using it and then we can always unify common
stuff later if it turns out that it won't diverge anymore.

> but if I were still maintainer I would not want that for x86/urgent.
> This patch has the very nice property for x86/urgent purposes that it
> doesn't touch non-FRED code at all.)

Right.

I'd let Xin work in all those comments and then I'll pick it up.

Thx.

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