On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 1:48 PM, H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com> wrote:
> On 10/01/2013 12:37 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
>> Refactor the CPU flags handling out of the cpucheck routines so that
>> they can be reused by the future ASLR routines (in order to detect CPU
>> features like RDRAND and RDTSC).
>>
>> This reworks has_eflag() and has_fpu() to be used on both 32-bit and
>> 64-bit, and refactors the calls to cpuid to make them PIC-safe on 32-bit.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org>
>
> Please flag the ones that specifically touch the boot code so that is
> clear.  Neither the title or the description makes that at all clear,
> and at first reading is fairly confusing as a result.

Yes, good point. Patch 1/7 should be named "x86, boot: ..."

Thanks!

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security
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