On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm at xmission.com> wrote: >> >> so we should two purgatory for x86_64 ? >> like one for 64bit and one for 32bit/16bit > > The problem is that the current 32bit assembly code is not possition > independent. If we can rewrite that assembly code to be position > independent no relocs will be generated and we should be good. > > The 16bit entry point code was already written as position independent > code so it should not cause problems. > > Just having one piece of code to deal with (if we can figure it out) > looks to be the simpler and more maintainable solution. sure.
