[coreboot] x86 : Puzzles about reset code

[Patrick Georgi]

2017-08-16 5:03 GMT+02:00 王翔 <merle at tya.email>:
> What is the meaning of hand coding?  In 16-bit mode, the last two bytes
are ignored.
This is _very_ old code. Back in the day, before we started to strongly
encourage people to use our compiler, we had to deal with tons of different
versions of the toolchain.
As the comment to the code indicates, 16bit relocations worked for some and
failed for others. Therefore we went for the safe route and manually
created a 32bit relocation.
We could probably clean up this part of the code now, but since so few
people are ever concerned with it (because it does exactly what it's
supposed to), there was no pressing need yet.


Regards,
Patrick
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