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authorIan Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>2008-04-27 07:21:11 -0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-04-29 07:45:24 -0400
commit4c0587e6e42c5b679234d3dffda8a888dc0ff9c1 (patch)
treeb1e03f3d18c256376fd87c5d9bc0c1ed21d75dbf /Documentation/i386/boot.txt
parent781fe2ebc0f44b32418d203ac023a541afdd042f (diff)
x86: add more boot protocol documentation
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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@@ -40,9 +40,17 @@ Protocol 2.05: (Kernel 2.6.20) Make protected mode kernel relocatable.
40 Introduce relocatable_kernel and kernel_alignment fields. 40 Introduce relocatable_kernel and kernel_alignment fields.
41 41
42Protocol 2.06: (Kernel 2.6.22) Added a field that contains the size of 42Protocol 2.06: (Kernel 2.6.22) Added a field that contains the size of
43 the boot command line 43 the boot command line.
44 44
45Protocol 2.09: (kernel 2.6.26) Added a field of 64-bit physical 45Protocol 2.07: (Kernel 2.6.24) Added paravirtualised boot protocol.
46 Introduced hardware_subarch and hardware_subarch_data
47 and KEEP_SEGMENTS flag in load_flags.
48
49Protocol 2.08: (Kernel 2.6.26) Added crc32 checksum and ELF format
50 payload. Introduced payload_offset and payload length
51 fields to aid in locating the payload.
52
53Protocol 2.09: (Kernel 2.6.26) Added a field of 64-bit physical
46 pointer to single linked list of struct setup_data. 54 pointer to single linked list of struct setup_data.
47 55
48**** MEMORY LAYOUT 56**** MEMORY LAYOUT