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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] Make bootsector stub 16-bit-only (i386)
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    On Tuesday 08 May 2007 13:25, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
    > Andrew Morton wrote:
    > >> # Normalize the start address
    > >> - jmpl $BOOTSEG, $start2
    > >> + jmpw $BOOTSEG, $start2
    > >
    > > Sigh, another blow struck in the ongoing struggle between my Vaio and the
    > > rest of the world.
    > >
    > > Stone-cold black-screen lockup immediately upon boot.
    > >
    > > Stock FC5 install, config at
    > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/config-sony.txt
    >
    > Andrew, I'm seriously starting to think there is something fundamentally
    > wrong with that test setup.

    I agree. The patch above does not change any code in the running
    kernel and is not even used in a normal kernel boot. Andrew,
    can you please double check that?

    > [*] On the other hand, as I discovered in the process,
    > arch/i386/kernel/cpu/transmeta.c apparently gets miscompiled on my
    > development system for top-of-Linus. This is a Linux bug and not gcc's
    > fault. The following code:

    You should have put that into a different mail (is there a electron shortage
    somewhere now? @) Ok, thanks for the well researched bug report. Will fix in
    my tree.

    -Andi

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