Re: [Q] x86 - boot/header.S

[Yinghai Lu]

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 12:20 AM, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx> 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
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