Re: [PATCH -mm -v2 2/2] i386/x86_64 boot: document for 32 bit bootprotocol

[H. Peter Anvin]

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:10:28 +0800
> "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> This patch defines a 32-bit boot protocol and adds corresponding
>> document. It is based on the proposal of Peter Anvin.
>>
>>
>> Known issues:
>>
>> - The hd0_info and hd1_info are deleted from the zero page. Additional
>>   work should be done for this? Or this is unnecessary (because no new
>>   fields will be added to zero page)?
> 
> They aren't actually that useful as for pretty much any 386 or later PC
> we can recover the disk geometry via the BIOS tables, or via EDD. Right
> now we don't save some neccessary fields if using EDD 1.1 but they could
> be saved into the same place EDD 3.0 puts them.
> 

Yeah, I just don't want to remove them from the structure to keep the
locations from getting recycled for a while.

	-hpa
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