Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] Replace paravirt_probe with "platform type" boot header field

[Eric W. Biederman]

Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 08:01 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> We should place that initial branch right after startup_32,
>> we don't need the startup_paravirt at all now.
>> 
>> ENTRY(startup_32)
>> #ifdef CONFIG_LGUEST_GUEST
>>         cmpl	$1, 0x23c(%esi)
>> 	je      lguest_init
>> #endif
>
> Hi Eric!
>
> 	Makes sense to me, but I wasn't sure... do we need to check for old
> bootloader versions and such?

Unlikely.  Unless we expect that this offset will come in non-zero.

Eric
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