Re: [PATCH v7u1 00/31] x86, boot, 64bit: Add support for loadingramdisk and bzImage above 4G

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 01/14/2013 02:44 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 12:45 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> This is getting extremely unwieldy and we need to get it broken up a bit.
>>
>> I would really like to get the boot protocol changes earlier in the
>> series, because it has interactions with work other people are doing and
>> may need additional surgery.  That is, the additions of flags and fields
>> to make it possible for the kernel to indicate that > 4 GB booting is
>> possible, not the actual implementation thereof.  This split between
>> protocol changes and implementation will also be useful for bisection.
> 
> When will we actually change protocol version number in the code?
> 
> We need to refer that number in the protocol doc.
> 

The protocol change and the documentation go together (as separate but
adjacent patches).  We bump the number when we change the structure to
accommodate the necessary fields and flags (i.e. a vacuous
implementation), not when we add the full functionality.

The reason I want to do this this way is that I want to also make David
Woodhouse's protocol fixes to make the EFI stub work correctly at the
same time, so we get a single protocol level bump.  I think it is better
I merge both sets, and I was hoping to do that tomorrow if possible.

	-hpa


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