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SubjectRe: [PATCH 19/20] x86_64: Extend bzImage protocol for relocatable kernel
On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 04:30:04PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Vivek Goyal wrote:
> >
> >o Extend the bzImage protocol (same as i386) to allow bzImage loaders to
> > load the protected mode kernel at non-1MB address. Now protected mode
> > component is relocatable and can be loaded at non-1MB addresses.
> >
> >o As of today kdump uses it to run a second kernel from a reserved memory
> > area.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
>
> Do you have a patch for Documentation/i386/boot.txt as well?
>

Yes. As documentation is shared between i386 and x86_64, It is already there
in Andi's tree and in -mm. I had pushed that with i386 relocatable bzImage
changes.

http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.19-rc5/2.6.19-rc5-mm2/broken-out/x86_64-mm-extend-bzimage-protocol-for-relocatable-protected-mode-kernel.patch

Thanks
Vivek
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