Re: [PATCH v2 03/13] x86: Add macro for 64bit entry startup_64

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 11/20/2012 04:34 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 4:28 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On 11/20/2012 04:20 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> relocatable_kernel really should have been a flag, but it is now defined as
>>>>> a comparison with zero.  As such, and in an effort to minimize the growth of
>>>>> struct setup_header (it is limited to little over 128 bytes long) I suggest
>>>>> we redefine the 16-byte field at offset 0x236 as a new flags field.  We
>>>>> still only need one flag, though.
>>
>> ok will use 0x236.
> 
> how to call it?
> 
> boot_flag2 ?
> 

Lets say "xloadflags".

	-hpa

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