Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:29:36 -0700 | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | | Subject | Re: [git pull] "big box" x86 changes, boot protocol |
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Ian Campbell wrote: > > How about this. I can redo against current Linus but that will need > fixups here. > > From cfed8d4043fc03ed948518076db602919b111a16 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> > Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:19:11 +0100 > Subject: [PATCH] Backfill x86 boot protocol documentation. > > Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> > Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> > Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> > --- > Documentation/i386/boot.txt | 12 ++++++++++-- > 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/i386/boot.txt b/Documentation/i386/boot.txt > index 0fac346..86fbbd0 100644 > --- a/Documentation/i386/boot.txt > +++ b/Documentation/i386/boot.txt > @@ -40,9 +40,17 @@ Protocol 2.05: (Kernel 2.6.20) Make protected mode kernel relocatable. > Introduce relocatable_kernel and kernel_alignment fields. > > Protocol 2.06: (Kernel 2.6.22) Added a field that contains the size of > - the boot command line > + the boot command line. > > -Protocol 2.09: (kernel 2.6.26) Added a field of 64-bit physical > +Protocol 2.07: (Kernel 2.6.24) Added paravirtualised boot protocol. > + Introduced hardware_subarch and hardware_subarch_data > + and KEEP_SEGMENTS flag in load_flags. > + > +Protocol 2.08: (Kernel 2.6.26) Added crc32 checksum and ELF format > + payload. Introduced payload_offset and payload length > + fields to aid in locating the payload. > + > +Protocol 2.09: (Kernel 2.6.26) Added a field of 64-bit physical > pointer to single linked list of struct setup_data. >
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Since this is a documentation fix, it can wait until post-window.
-hpa
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