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Re: 2.3.99-3 axp combo patch

From: Richard Henderson <rth twiddle net>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea suse de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds transmeta com>, axp-list redhat com, linux-alpha vger rutgers edu
Subject: Re: 2.3.99-3 axp combo patch
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 20:31:24 -0800

On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 02:17:19AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> To fix that instead of adding still more
> assembler all over the place I removed the assembler from the x86 point
> and I am doing now that in the common code so nobody can forget about that
> anymore.

Ug.  This would prevent the bootloader from writing interesting
data into bss addresses (after having cleared the thing of course).

r~

References:
- Re: 2.3.99-3 axp combo patch
  - From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>

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