Followup to:  <m1pttxlebr.fsf@frodo.biederman.org>
By author:    ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> What I am proposing is an interface change.  The only known bootloader
> this does not fix is gujin and the fix of loading segments earlier is
> trivial, and fully backwards compatible.  The advantage of this patch
> is that no future changes to the kernel's gdt will affect bootloaders.
> 

Please detail how the interface changes.  It is not at all clear from
the code.

> @@ -101,7 +96,8 @@
>  	popl %eax	# hcount
>  	movl $0x100000,%edi
>  	cli		# make sure we don't get interrupted
> -	ljmp $(__KERNEL_CS), $0x1000 # and jump to the move routine
> +	movl $0x1000, %ebp
> +	jmpl *%ebp	# and jump to the move routine
> 
>  /*
>   * Routine (template) for moving the decompressed kernel in place,

Why are you avoiding to set __SETUP_CS here?

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