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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 3/3] boot bzImages under paravirt
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> Right after the segments loads we have:
> leal 0x40(%esi), %esp
> call 1f
> 1: popl %ebp
> subl $1b, %ebp
>
> That uses %ss and %ds. Can we use a segment override on a call
> instruction?
>

Nope. As I said, not having %ss and %es set up is not realistic for
anything other than switching to our own GDT.

-hpa
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