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| author | Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> | 2008-04-27 12:21:11 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-04-29 13:45:24 +0200 |
| 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 0fac3465f2e..95ad15c3b01 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. Introduce relocatable_kernel and kernel_alignment fields. Protocol 2.06: (Kernel 2.6.22) Added a field that contains the size of - the boot command line + the boot command line. -Protocol 2.09: (kernel 2.6.26) Added a field of 64-bit physical +Protocol 2.07: (Kernel 2.6.24) Added paravirtualised boot protocol. + Introduced hardware_subarch and hardware_subarch_data + and KEEP_SEGMENTS flag in load_flags. + +Protocol 2.08: (Kernel 2.6.26) Added crc32 checksum and ELF format + payload. Introduced payload_offset and payload length + fields to aid in locating the payload. + +Protocol 2.09: (Kernel 2.6.26) Added a field of 64-bit physical pointer to single linked list of struct setup_data. **** MEMORY LAYOUT |