Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 29 Mar 2008 23:25:10 -0500 | | From | Paul Jackson <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/4] x86_64 boot -v2: Add linked list of struct setup_data | |
Huang wrote:
> + __u32 payload_offset;
> + __u32 payload_length;
This seems to be the descriptor for an incoming compressed
kernel image, right? What is it doing in this patchset?
In your PATCH 4/4 to Documentation/i386/boot.txt, I can see
that there already existed documentation of these two payload
fields:
0248/4 2.08+ payload_offset Offset of kernel payload
024C/4 2.08+ payload_length Length of kernel payload
However, that documentation is just a useless rephrasing of the
variable names, with the added word "kernel". Is this a compressed
kernel image? If so, could that documentation be improved, perhaps as:
0248/4 2.08+ payload_offset Offset of compressed kernel payload
024C/4 2.08+ payload_length Length of compressed kernel payload
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