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Commit 4c0587e6 authored by Ian Campbell's avatar Ian Campbell Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86: add more boot protocol documentation



Signed-off-by: default avatarIan Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Acked-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent 781fe2eb
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@@ -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