On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 2:32 PM, H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm trying to think of any reason why we couldn't simply have a symbol at the > top of the initial stack? Then a simple leaq would suffice; this is for the > BSP after all.
Why do we need to call verify_cpu in arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S aka the vmlinux again ? Is that already called in arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S? Or Tom is using 64bit bootloader that use vmlinux instead of bzImage? Thanks Yinghai
