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author | Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com> | 2011-03-15 02:58:50 -0400 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2011-04-29 17:13:15 -0400 |
commit | f548ccd47d608e88d432745091e13f927ced83f7 (patch) | |
tree | d5e93a47a4d7fddf6474b35b43c9ce275c97c0f5 | |
parent | 57d5f9f808b7650a92f31e9cd3acd3f415a22530 (diff) |
x86: Better comments for get_bios_ebda()
Make the comments a bit clearer for get_bios_ebda so that it actually
tells us what it is returning.
Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/bios_ebda.h | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/bios_ebda.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/bios_ebda.h index 5174cf0bf59..aa6a3170ab5 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/bios_ebda.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/bios_ebda.h | |||
@@ -4,11 +4,14 @@ | |||
4 | #include <asm/io.h> | 4 | #include <asm/io.h> |
5 | 5 | ||
6 | /* | 6 | /* |
7 | * there is a real-mode segmented pointer pointing to the | 7 | * Returns physical address of EBDA. Returns 0 if there is no EBDA. |
8 | * 4K EBDA area at 0x40E. | ||
9 | */ | 8 | */ |
10 | static inline unsigned int get_bios_ebda(void) | 9 | static inline unsigned int get_bios_ebda(void) |
11 | { | 10 | { |
11 | /* | ||
12 | * There is a real-mode segmented pointer pointing to the | ||
13 | * 4K EBDA area at 0x40E. | ||
14 | */ | ||
12 | unsigned int address = *(unsigned short *)phys_to_virt(0x40E); | 15 | unsigned int address = *(unsigned short *)phys_to_virt(0x40E); |
13 | address <<= 4; | 16 | address <<= 4; |
14 | return address; /* 0 means none */ | 17 | return address; /* 0 means none */ |