Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Aug 2006 22:24:51 +0300 | From | "Alon Bar-Lev" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit (ping) |
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On 8/28/06, Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> wrote: > No reason. I was just trying to be careful, not leaving data in the > upper bits of those registers going uninitialized. If we know they're > not being used ever, then it's not a problem. But I don't think > that's the source of the command line size concern, is it?
Since the cmd_line_ptr is 32bit, we can load the lower 16bits into si, ignoring the upper 16bits, or we can use esi for all references. I think using esi for all references is cleaner...
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