Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] boot bzImages under paravirt

[H. Peter Anvin]

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> Right after the segments loads we have:
> 	leal 0x40(%esi), %esp
> 	call 1f
> 1:	popl %ebp
> 	subl $1b, %ebp
> 
> That uses %ss and %ds.  Can we use a segment override on a call
> instruction?
> 

Nope.  As I said, not having %ss and %es set up is not realistic for
anything other than switching to our own GDT.

	-hpa
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