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Peter Anvin" Message-ID: Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2019 13:40:28 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20191104151354.28145-1-daniel.kiper@oracle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2019-11-04 07:13, Daniel Kiper wrote: > Hi, > > Due to very limited space in the setup_header this patch series introduces new > kernel_info struct which will be used to convey information from the kernel to > the bootloader. This way the boot protocol can be extended regardless of the > setup_header limitations. Additionally, the patch series introduces some > convenience features like the setup_indirect struct and the > kernel_info.setup_type_max field. > > Daniel > Looks great! Ship it! Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) -hpa