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

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Fri Nov 17 2006 - 19:46:32 EST


Vivek Goyal wrote:
On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 04:30:04PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
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?


Yes. As documentation is shared between i386 and x86_64, It is already there
in Andi's tree and in -mm. I had pushed that with i386 relocatable bzImage
changes.

http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.19-rc5/2.6.19-rc5-mm2/broken-out/x86_64-mm-extend-bzimage-protocol-for-relocatable-protected-mode-kernel.patch


Your documentation change is buggy.

The fields at 0230/4 and 0234/1 are 2.05+ not 2.04+

Please fix, also please update the last revision date.

-hpa
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