[PATCH 7/9] x86, boot: add field to support load bzImage and ramdisk high

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Fri Nov 16 2012 - 03:54:19 EST


ext_ramdisk_image/size will record high 32bits for ramdisk info.

code64_start_offset will be set for bzImage that support 64bit.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/x86/boot.txt | 4 ++++
arch/x86/boot/header.S | 11 ++++++++++-
arch/x86/include/asm/bootparam.h | 3 +++
arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 6 ++++++
4 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/x86/boot.txt b/Documentation/x86/boot.txt
index 9efceff..26c7dcc 100644
--- a/Documentation/x86/boot.txt
+++ b/Documentation/x86/boot.txt
@@ -193,6 +193,10 @@ Offset Proto Name Meaning
0258/8 2.10+ pref_address Preferred loading address
0260/4 2.10+ init_size Linear memory required during initialization
0264/4 2.11+ handover_offset Offset of handover entry point
+0268/4 2.12+ ext_ramdisk_image initrd load address high 32 bits
+ (set by boot loader)
+026C/4 2.12+ ext_ramdisk_size initrd size high 32 bits (set by boot loader)
+0270/4 2.12+ code64_start_offset 64bit start offset for bzImage

(1) For backwards compatibility, if the setup_sects field contains 0, the
real value is 4.
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/header.S b/arch/x86/boot/header.S
index 2a01744..85ce1a4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/header.S
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/header.S
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ _start:
# Part 2 of the header, from the old setup.S

.ascii "HdrS" # header signature
- .word 0x020b # header version number (>= 0x0105)
+ .word 0x020c # header version number (>= 0x0105)
# or else old loadlin-1.5 will fail)
.globl realmode_swtch
realmode_swtch: .word 0, 0 # default_switch, SETUPSEG
@@ -400,6 +400,15 @@ init_size: .long INIT_SIZE # kernel initialization size
handover_offset: .long 0x30 # offset to the handover
# protocol entry point

+ext_ramdisk_image: .long 0 # address of loaded ramdisk image
+ # Here the loader puts the high 32 bits
+ # address where it loaded the image.
+ # This only will be read by the kernel.
+
+ext_ramdisk_size: .long 0 # its size in bytes high 32 bits.
+code64_start_offset: .long BOOT_CODE64_START_OFFSET # startup_64 in
+ # arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S
+
# End of setup header #####################################################

.section ".entrytext", "ax"
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/bootparam.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/bootparam.h
index 2ad874c..4e42fd1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/bootparam.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/bootparam.h
@@ -67,6 +67,9 @@ struct setup_header {
__u64 pref_address;
__u32 init_size;
__u32 handover_offset;
+ __u32 ext_ramdisk_image;
+ __u32 ext_ramdisk_size;
+ __u32 code64_start_offset;
} __attribute__((packed));

struct sys_desc_table {
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
index 194e151..c2eb535 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
@@ -302,12 +302,18 @@ static u64 __init get_ramdisk_image(void)
{
u64 ramdisk_image = boot_params.hdr.ramdisk_image;

+ if (boot_params.hdr.version >= 0x020c)
+ ramdisk_image |= (u64)boot_params.hdr.ext_ramdisk_image << 32;
+
return ramdisk_image;
}
static u64 __init get_ramdisk_size(void)
{
u64 ramdisk_size = boot_params.hdr.ramdisk_size;

+ if (boot_params.hdr.version >= 0x020c)
+ ramdisk_size |= (u64)boot_params.hdr.ext_ramdisk_size << 32;
+
return ramdisk_size;
}

--
1.7.7

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