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authorMike Waychison <mikew@google.com>2011-03-15 02:58:50 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2011-04-29 17:13:15 -0400
commitf548ccd47d608e88d432745091e13f927ced83f7 (patch)
treed5e93a47a4d7fddf6474b35b43c9ce275c97c0f5 /arch/x86/include/asm/bios_ebda.h
parent57d5f9f808b7650a92f31e9cd3acd3f415a22530 (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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/bios_ebda.h')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/bios_ebda.h7
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 */
10static inline unsigned int get_bios_ebda(void) 9static 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 */