Re: [PATCH v7u1 23/31] x86, boot: update comments about entries for64bit image

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Mon Jan 14 2013 - 13:43:48 EST


On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:35:28AM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> that is:
> ---
> The memory for struct boot_params
> could be allocated anywhere (even above 4G) and initialized to all zero.
> ---

This sounds ok.

> bootloader memset zero_page at first means.
> and all bootloader did that except kexec. and it is fixed patches for
> kexec-tools.

This reads very strange. Do you mean:

"All bootloaders clear the zero page as early as possible, except kexec.
This is now fixed in kexec-tools, too."

?

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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