Re: [PATCH -v7 1/3] x86 boot: setup data

[H. Peter Anvin]

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > No, he doesn't.  The boot protocol version is communication between
> > the boot loader and the kernel (specifically, it is communication FROM
> > the kernel TO the bootloader), not between internal bits of the
> > kernel.  Th
>
> So the bootloader will only fill out fields the kernel claims to understand?

Correct.  If it fails to respect this restriction, it might even 
overwrite kernel code.  To make the bootloader's job easier, we have 
retconned the jump instruction at the beginning of the header to also be 
a limit marker.

	-hpa
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