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i386: Add warning in Documentation that zero-page is not a stable ABI
authorAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:31:08 +0000 (22:31 +0200)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 11 Aug 2007 22:58:14 +0000 (15:58 -0700)
commit6999466b608c5372e7540655d19cafa9e46fc135
tree2a7c894bb93aac523cc2228b5249e659a7df3a9b
parent8b02e900ff664140dd8054bfe854689111f5d912
i386: Add warning in Documentation that zero-page is not a stable ABI

Some people writing boot loaders seem to falsely belief the 32bit zero page is a
stable interface for out of tree code like the real mode boot protocol. Add a comment
clarifying that is not true.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/i386/zero-page.txt