x86, boot: add linked list of struct setup_data

This patch adds a field of 64-bit physical pointer to NULL terminated
single linked list of struct setup_data to real-mode kernel
header. This is used as a more extensible boot parameters passing
mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-x86/bootparam.h b/include/asm-x86/bootparam.h
index 51151356840f..e8659909e5f6 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86/bootparam.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86/bootparam.h
@@ -9,6 +9,17 @@
 #include <asm/ist.h>
 #include <video/edid.h>
 
+/* setup data types */
+#define SETUP_NONE                      0
+
+/* extensible setup data list node */
+struct setup_data {
+        u64 next;
+        u32 type;
+        u32 len;
+        u8 data[0];
+};
+
 struct setup_header {
         __u8    setup_sects;
         __u16   root_flags;
@@ -46,6 +57,9 @@ struct setup_header {
         __u32   cmdline_size;
         __u32   hardware_subarch;
         __u64   hardware_subarch_data;
+        __u32   payload_offset;
+        __u32   payload_length;
+        __u64   setup_data;
 } __attribute__((packed));
 
 struct sys_desc_table {