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Re: [PATCH] mutliboot2 second round



On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 02:09:40AM +0000, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> Please find attached a patch for multiboot 2 on amd64 that I hope
> addresses Maxime's concerns:
> - multiboot locore moved to a separate file
> - kernel copy was cleaned up (but there are two versions, see below)
> - the 32 bit C code is now built from C

I still don't get why you need 32bit C code or even the memmove. What
exactly are the constraints of the entry point? 32bit protected mode without
paging to an unknown physical address without any guarantees about
alignment?

Joerg


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