Re: [git pull] "big box" x86 changes, boot protocol

[Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>]

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On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 21:54 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> diff --git a/Documentation/i386/boot.txt b/Documentation/i386/boot.txt
> index 2eb1610..0fac346 100644
> --- a/Documentation/i386/boot.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/i386/boot.txt
> @@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ Protocol 2.05:        (Kernel 2.6.20) Make protected mode kernel relocatable.
>  Protocol 2.06: (Kernel 2.6.22) Added a field that contains the size of
>                 the boot command line
>  
> +Protocol 2.09: (kernel 2.6.26) Added a field of 64-bit physical
> +               pointer to single linked list of struct setup_data.
>  

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.
 
 **** MEMORY LAYOUT
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1.5.5.1



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Ian Campbell

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