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authorH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>2009-01-14 19:07:38 -0500
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>2009-01-14 19:07:38 -0500
commitee287587dafd77fd211e50637561224605c214b4 (patch)
tree13ec1307649f0efb0d0de035782041edfe5a2ce1 /Documentation
parent95c4bff0308eb0819436b730a836846d3e784657 (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>
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diff --git a/Documentation/x86/boot.txt b/Documentation/x86/boot.txt
index fcdc62b3c3d8..9ac70ffe2b77 100644
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+++ 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
547Field name: payload_length 550Field name: payload_length
548Type: read 551Type: read