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author | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> | 2009-01-14 19:07:38 -0500 |
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committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> | 2009-01-14 19:07:38 -0500 |
commit | ee287587dafd77fd211e50637561224605c214b4 (patch) | |
tree | 13ec1307649f0efb0d0de035782041edfe5a2ce1 /Documentation/x86/boot.txt | |
parent | 95c4bff0308eb0819436b730a836846d3e784657 (diff) |
bzip2/lzma: update boot protocol specification
Impact: documentation
Update the boot protocol specification to include the currently
supported file formats and their magic numbers.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/x86/boot.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/boot.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/boot.txt b/Documentation/x86/boot.txt index fcdc62b3c3d8..9ac70ffe2b77 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/boot.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/boot.txt | |||
@@ -542,7 +542,10 @@ Protocol: 2.08+ | |||
542 | 542 | ||
543 | The payload may be compressed. The format of both the compressed and | 543 | The payload may be compressed. The format of both the compressed and |
544 | uncompressed data should be determined using the standard magic | 544 | uncompressed data should be determined using the standard magic |
545 | numbers. Currently only gzip compressed ELF is used. | 545 | numbers. The currently supported compression formats are gzip |
546 | (magic numbers 1F 8B or 1F 9E), bzip2 (magic number 42 5A) and LZMA | ||
547 | (magic number 5D 00). The uncompressed payload is currently always ELF | ||
548 | (magic number 7F 45 4C 46). | ||
546 | 549 | ||
547 | Field name: payload_length | 550 | Field name: payload_length |
548 | Type: read | 551 | Type: read |