Merge branch 'x86/core' into core/percpu

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/x86/boot.txt b/Documentation/x86/boot.txt
index 12299697b7c..e0203662f9e 100644
--- a/Documentation/x86/boot.txt
+++ b/Documentation/x86/boot.txt
@@ -543,7 +543,10 @@ Protocol:	2.08+
 
   The payload may be compressed. The format of both the compressed and
   uncompressed data should be determined using the standard magic
-  numbers. Currently only gzip compressed ELF is used.
+  numbers.  The currently supported compression formats are gzip
+  (magic numbers 1F 8B or 1F 9E), bzip2 (magic number 42 5A) and LZMA
+  (magic number 5D 00).  The uncompressed payload is currently always ELF
+  (magic number 7F 45 4C 46).
   
 Field name:     payload_length
 Type:           read