Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 28 Apr 2007 13:38:19 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [patches] [PATCH] [21/22] x86_64: Extend bzImage protocol for relocatable bzImage |
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Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > The boot protocol change is in 2.6.21 for arch/i386. > > HPA looked at it a while ago. > > All it does is set a flag that tells a bootloader. > "Hey. I can run when loaded a non-default address, and this is what > you have to align me to." > > All relocation processing happens in the kernel itself. > > So it is all pretty trivial. >
Indeed. We *did* find some problems with Grub with the early versions, those were addressed.
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