From: Ian Campbell Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:21:11 +0000 (+0100) Subject: x86: add more boot protocol documentation X-Git-Tag: v2.6.26-rc1~367^2~2 X-Git-Url: http://ftp.safe.ca/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4c0587e6e42c5b679234d3dffda8a888dc0ff9c1;p=safe%2Fjmp%2Flinux-2.6 x86: add more boot protocol documentation Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- diff --git a/Documentation/i386/boot.txt b/Documentation/i386/boot.txt index 0fac346..95ad15c 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