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