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author | Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> | 2008-04-27 07:21:11 -0400 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-04-29 07:45:24 -0400 |
commit | 4c0587e6e42c5b679234d3dffda8a888dc0ff9c1 (patch) | |
tree | b1e03f3d18c256376fd87c5d9bc0c1ed21d75dbf /Documentation/i386 | |
parent | 781fe2ebc0f44b32418d203ac023a541afdd042f (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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/i386')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/i386/boot.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/i386/boot.txt b/Documentation/i386/boot.txt index 0fac3465f2e3..95ad15c3b01f 100644 --- a/Documentation/i386/boot.txt +++ b/Documentation/i386/boot.txt | |||
@@ -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 | ||
42 | Protocol 2.06: (Kernel 2.6.22) Added a field that contains the size of | 42 | Protocol 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 | ||
45 | Protocol 2.09: (kernel 2.6.26) Added a field of 64-bit physical | 45 | Protocol 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 | |||
49 | Protocol 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 | |||
53 | Protocol 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 |