Re: [PATCH v3 11/12] x86, boot: add fields to support load bzImageand ramdisk high

[Yinghai Lu]

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:37 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> looks we only can use [0x30,0x3c), [0x1e8, 0x1f0), but in boot_params,
>> they
>> are apm_bios_info, and alt_mem_k...
>
>
> ... which I suspect get set by said kexec botch.
>
>
>> so looks we still have to use setup_header instead.
>
>
> We need to dig into this and either say "this is unsupportable" or put in
> some kind of hack.

ok, I will use 0xc0 instead, and at the same time try to fix that from kexec.

then user will still have chance to use old kexec tools without enable
CONFIG_EFI_STUB in kernel.

Thanks

Yinghai
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