Re: [PATCH 19/20] x86_64: Extend bzImage protocol for relocatablekernel

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Fri Nov 17 2006 - 19:31:26 EST


Vivek Goyal wrote:

o Extend the bzImage protocol (same as i386) to allow bzImage loaders to
load the protected mode kernel at non-1MB address. Now protected mode
component is relocatable and can be loaded at non-1MB addresses.

o As of today kdump uses it to run a second kernel from a reserved memory
area.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>

Do you have a patch for Documentation/i386/boot.txt as well?

-hpa
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