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H. Peter Anvin
5031296c57 x86: add extension fields for bootloader type and version
A long ago, in days of yore, it all began with a god named Thor.
There were vikings and boats and some plans for a Linux kernel
header.  Unfortunately, a single 8-bit field was used for bootloader
type and version.  This has generally worked without *too* much pain,
but we're getting close to flat running out of ID fields.

Add extension fields for both type and version.  The type will be
extended if it the old field is 0xE; the version is a simple MSB
extension.

Keep /proc/sys/kernel/bootloader_type containing
(type << 4) + (ver & 0xf) for backwards compatiblity, but also add
/proc/sys/kernel/bootloader_version which contains the full version
number.

[ Impact: new feature to support more bootloaders ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-11 17:45:06 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
d297366ba6 x86: document new bzImage fields
Document the new bzImage fields for kernel memory placement.

[ Impact: adds documentation ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-11 17:45:05 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
8b0e5860cb Merge branches 'x86/apic', 'x86/cpu', 'x86/fixmap', 'x86/mm', 'x86/sched', 'x86/setup-lzma', 'x86/signal' and 'x86/urgent' into x86/core 2009-03-04 02:22:31 +01:00
Baodong Chen
e56d0cfe77 Documentation/x86/boot.txt: modify fieldname
Modify field names to the right ones:

 - start_sys was changed to start_sys_seg
 - iinitrd_addr_max was changed to ramdisk_max
 - pad2 was changed to pad2 and pad3
 - readmode_swtch was changed to realmode_swtch

Signed-off-by: Baodong Chen <[email]chenbdchenbd@gmail.com[email]>
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-15 14:43:10 +01:00
H. Peter Anvin
ee287587da bzip2/lzma: update boot protocol specification
Impact: documentation

Update the boot protocol specification to include the currently
supported file formats and their magic numbers.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2009-01-14 16:07:38 -08:00
Baodong Chen
2f6de3a199 Documentation/x86/boot.txt: payload length was changed to payload_length
Signed-off-by: Baodong Chen <[email]chenbdchenbd@gmail.com[email]>
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-04 18:19:40 +01:00
Philipp Kohlbecher
e1286f2c68 x86: documentation fix regarding boot protocol
Impact: clarify documentation

Documentation/x86/boot.txt describes payload_offset as the offset
from the end of the real-mode code. In fact, it is more accurately
described as the offset from the beginning of the protected-mode
code, as (a) this is how it is actually calculated and (b) the padding
after the real-mode code is not included in the offset.

Signed-off-by: Philipp Kohlbecher <xt28@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-16 22:05:09 +01:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
9ee670fd87 x86/doc: spelling fix for grub
Impact: documentation fix

I met okuji-san (GRUB maintainer) yesterday.
He said GRuB isn't correct spelled and he want to fix it.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-11 19:30:31 +01:00
H. Peter Anvin
a021e5124a x86: doc: boot.txt: fix the size of the start_sys field
The start_sys field is two bytes, not four.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-07-22 15:34:41 -04:00
H. Peter Anvin
5616c23ad9 x86: doc: move x86-generic documentation from Doc/x86/i386
The boot protocol, USB legacy support, and zero-page documentation is
common to the x86 platform, not i386-specific.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-07-22 15:34:38 -04:00
Renamed from Documentation/x86/i386/boot.txt (Browse further)