From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760515AbYD0Lav (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2008 07:30:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753733AbYD0Lak (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2008 07:30:40 -0400 Received: from queueout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.33]:36484 "EHLO queueout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752742AbYD0Laj (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2008 07:30:39 -0400 From: Ian Campbell To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , Yinghai Lu , Yinghai Lu , jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org, Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Rusty Russell In-Reply-To: <20080426195407.GA13729@elte.hu> References: <20080426185516.GA32364@elte.hu> <20080426195407.GA13729@elte.hu> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-+hOmJEAK9bhI1z2Saw5o" Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:21:11 +0100 Message-Id: <1209295271.2063.94.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.1 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.1.5 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ijc@hellion.org.uk Subject: Re: [git pull] "big box" x86 changes, boot protocol X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Tue, 09 Jan 2007 17:23:22 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on hopkins.hellion.org.uk) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-+hOmJEAK9bhI1z2Saw5o Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 mo= de kernel relocatable. > Protocol 2.06: (Kernel 2.6.22) Added a field that contains the size of > the boot command line > =20 > +Protocol 2.09: (kernel 2.6.26) Added a field of 64-bit physical > + pointer to single linked list of struct setup_data. > =20 How about this. I can redo against current Linus but that will need fixups here. =46rom cfed8d4043fc03ed948518076db602919b111a16 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Campbell Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:19:11 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Backfill x86 boot protocol documentation. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge --- 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 kerne= l relocatable. Introduce relocatable_kernel and kernel_alignment fields. =20 Protocol 2.06: (Kernel 2.6.22) Added a field that contains the size of - the boot command line + the boot command line. =20 -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. =20 **** MEMORY LAYOUT --=20 1.5.5.1 --=20 Ian Campbell Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance -- Jim Horning --=-+hOmJEAK9bhI1z2Saw5o Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBIFGGnM0+0qS9rzVkRArAvAJ9H2F7FOLpwzp7YZkKTpDcrYqWQMwCg72Xe lEy+mm1CtEdxwmauNBn7VPM= =AOpt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-+hOmJEAK9bhI1z2Saw5o--