Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 9 Jan 2013 00:25:36 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v7 00/27] x86, boot, 64bit: Add support for loading ramdisk and bzImage above 4G |
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On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 03:17:46PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > The only thing that started this was that I got tempted into a > microoptimization that happens to be valid and documented on Intel, > but not AMD. Given that it doesn't actually work lretq is probably the > least insane option.
Well, it would've been good if AMD had implemented the jmp far with 64-bit offset.
And I agree, lretq is way better an option than anything else.
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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