Re: [RFC -mm 0/2] i386/x86_64 boot: 32-bit boot protocol

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Mon Sep 17 2007 - 05:09:46 EST


On Monday 17 September 2007 10:26:12 Huang, Ying wrote:
> For machine with some new BIOS other than legacy BIOS, such as EFI,
> LinuxBIOS, etc, and kexec, the 16-bit real mode setup code in kernel
> based on legacy BIOS can not be used, so a 32-bit boot protocol need
> to be defined.

The patch doesn't seem to be what you advertise in the description.
Can you start with a patch that just implements the new boot protocol
parsing for better review? The EFI code should be all in separate
patches.
-Andi
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