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SubjectRe: i386 entry.S problems
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On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 16:12, Jan Beulich wrote:
> There appear to be two problems in i386's entry.S:
>
> (1) With CONFIG_REGPARM, lcall7 and lcall27 did not work (they pass the
> parameters to the actual handler procedure on the stack).

I wonder why we still have the lcall7/lcall27 entry points in the
kernel; nothing can legitemately use them and in the last few years they
have only caused a few security issues. Can I ask why you didn't just
remove this code from the kernel ?
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