Eric W. Biederman wrote:The longer jump was never documented, and so didn't exist. There was definitely no way to rely on it. The old command-line protocol had some really ugly interactions with the absolutely insane hoisting code from the pre-2.02 days. I didn't have enough guts back then to scream and just rip it out, mostly because it took me a long time to figure out what the heck it really did (as opposed to what it claimed it did.) That being said, we probably could have gotten away with leaving the protocol as-is while ripping out the guts (as I eventually did in the rewrite), even if the old protocol only had a 16-bit pointer. The problem is that that will only buy us 15 bytes, and eat up 3 (in practice, 4) of them... It might be worth doing anyway, as it'd only break the 32-bit entrypoint users to reorganize struct boot_params. -hpa -
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