Re: [patches] [PATCH] [21/22] x86_64: Extend bzImage protocol forrelocatable bzImage

[H. Peter Anvin]

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> The boot protocol change is in 2.6.21 for arch/i386.
> 
> HPA looked at it a while ago.
> 
> All it does is set a flag that tells a bootloader.
> "Hey. I can run when loaded a non-default address, and this is what
>  you have to align me to."
> 
> All relocation processing happens in the kernel itself.
> 
> So it is all pretty trivial.
> 

Indeed.  We *did* find some problems with Grub with the early versions,
those were addressed.

	-hpa
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