Re: [PATCH] x86: tell the world boot_params is 16-byte aligned

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 05/08/2015 10:40 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, May 08, 2015 at 09:26:49AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> NAK.  This could break in the case of careless bootloaders...
> 
> Please elaborate. You mean, they'll go with the max alignment too and
> search boot_params there?
> 

A careless bootloader may not align this data structure to any
particular alignment.

Of course, for x86 it doesn't matter too much, as it just hurts performance.

	-hpa

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