Re: [git pull] "big box" x86 changes, boot protocol
From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Sun Apr 27 2008 - 15:34:35 EST
Ian Campbell wrote:
How about this. I can redo against current Linus but that will need
fixups here.
From cfed8d4043fc03ed948518076db602919b111a16 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ian Campbell <ijc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:19:11 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Backfill x86 boot protocol documentation.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/i386/boot.txt | 12 ++++++++++--
1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/i386/boot.txt b/Documentation/i386/boot.txt
index 0fac346..86fbbd0 100644
--- a/Documentation/i386/boot.txt
+++ b/Documentation/i386/boot.txt
@@ -40,9 +40,17 @@ Protocol 2.05: (Kernel 2.6.20) Make protected mode kernel relocatable.
Introduce relocatable_kernel and kernel_alignment fields.
Protocol 2.06: (Kernel 2.6.22) Added a field that contains the size of
- the boot command line
+ the boot command line.
-Protocol 2.09: (kernel 2.6.26) Added a field of 64-bit physical
+Protocol 2.07: (Kernel 2.6.24) Added paravirtualised boot protocol.
+ Introduced hardware_subarch and hardware_subarch_data
+ and KEEP_SEGMENTS flag in load_flags.
+
+Protocol 2.08: (Kernel 2.6.26) Added crc32 checksum and ELF format
+ payload. Introduced payload_offset and payload length
+ fields to aid in locating the payload.
+
+Protocol 2.09: (Kernel 2.6.26) Added a field of 64-bit physical
pointer to single linked list of struct setup_data.
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Since this is a documentation fix, it can wait until post-window.
-hpa
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