x86: add more boot protocol documentation
authorIan Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:21:11 +0000 (12:21 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:45:24 +0000 (13:45 +0200)
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>
Documentation/i386/boot.txt

index 0fac346..95ad15c 100644 (file)
@@ -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