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authorVivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>2006-12-06 20:14:13 -0500
committerAndi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org>2006-12-06 20:14:13 -0500
commitd263b213577a1e8f166b0a7212d85175e36d6c19 (patch)
treeebd5221bdebe0f222a8fea2f91e71977a0e270f6 /Documentation/i386/boot.txt
parent9cfa5b5dfafcfe64c1a48906f243cdd302f82471 (diff)
[PATCH] x86-64: Correct documentation for bzImage protocol v2.05
Correct the documentation for bzImage protocol extension due to relocatable bzImage. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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3 3
4 H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> 4 H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
5 Last update 2005-09-02 5 Last update 2006-11-17
6 6
7On the i386 platform, the Linux kernel uses a rather complicated boot 7On the i386 platform, the Linux kernel uses a rather complicated boot
8convention. This has evolved partially due to historical aspects, as 8convention. This has evolved partially due to historical aspects, as
@@ -131,8 +131,8 @@ Offset Proto Name Meaning
1310226/2 N/A pad1 Unused 1310226/2 N/A pad1 Unused
1320228/4 2.02+ cmd_line_ptr 32-bit pointer to the kernel command line 1320228/4 2.02+ cmd_line_ptr 32-bit pointer to the kernel command line
133022C/4 2.03+ initrd_addr_max Highest legal initrd address 133022C/4 2.03+ initrd_addr_max Highest legal initrd address
1340230/4 2.04+ kernel_alignment Physical addr alignment required for kernel 1340230/4 2.05+ kernel_alignment Physical addr alignment required for kernel
1350234/1 2.04+ relocatable_kernel Whether kernel is relocatable or not 1350234/1 2.05+ relocatable_kernel Whether kernel is relocatable or not
136 136
137(1) For backwards compatibility, if the setup_sects field contains 0, the 137(1) For backwards compatibility, if the setup_sects field contains 0, the
138 real value is 4. 138 real value is 4.