Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Jan 2006 03:53:40 -0500 | From | Chuck Ebbert <> | Subject | Re: [patch 0/9] Shared ia32 syscall table |
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In-Reply-To: <200601240141.08152.ak@suse.de>
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 at 01:41:07 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 January 2006 01:36, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > > This patch series updates i386 and x86_64 so they share > > the same ia32 syscall table. UML already uses the i386 > > table and is updated to use the new shared table as well. > > That's wrong for x86-64. The IA32 syscall table needs > to point to compat_* version of syscalls, while the native > IA32 table uses sys_* directly.
How could I have possibly gotten a successful boot of an i386 distro on top of the patched x86_64 kernel if this were wrong?
Did you even look at the patches? -- Chuck
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