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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] broken ebba638ae723d8a8fc2f7abce5ec18b688b791d7
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 11:49:36 +1030
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On Thu, 3 Feb 2011 09:18:21 am H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 01/28/2011 08:58 AM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> > On 01/27/2011 07:38 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >> [Adding Jeremy]
> >>
> >> Jeremy, would this break Xen?  As far as I know, Xen is the main user
> >> of skipping segment register initialization.
> > 
> > Xen doesn't go through head_*.S at all.
> > 
> 
> OK, I guess it's actually lguest which needs this feature?

Well, we already move __BOOT_DS into every other segment reg, so I don't think
%ss will break...

Checking...
Rusty.