On 12/28/2010 08:13 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> writes: >> >> Well, the trampoline is optional only on 32 bits, and with my changes, >> it would be unconditional. > > What motivates your trampoline rewrite? > The fact that so far four different pieces of code have low memory trampolines, and each is implemented differently. Furthermore, I'm currently being forced to work on a fifth. This unifies all that code, but it also makes it unconditional since at least reboot=bios is always going to need to be there. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.