Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755847AbWKRAqN (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Nov 2006 19:46:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754078AbWKRAqN (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Nov 2006 19:46:13 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:35728 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755847AbWKRAqN (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Nov 2006 19:46:13 -0500 Message-ID: <455E57BA.7060309@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 16:45:46 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061107) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: vgoyal@in.ibm.com CC: linux kernel mailing list , Reloc Kernel List , ebiederm@xmission.com, akpm@osdl.org, ak@suse.de, magnus.damm@gmail.com, lwang@redhat.com, dzickus@redhat.com, pavel@suse.cz, rjw@sisk.pl Subject: Re: [PATCH 19/20] x86_64: Extend bzImage protocol for relocatable kernel References: <20061117223432.GA15449@in.ibm.com> <20061117225826.GT15449@in.ibm.com> <455E540C.6090202@zytor.com> <20061118003718.GB4321@in.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20061118003718.GB4321@in.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1293 Lines: 33 Vivek Goyal wrote: > On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 04:30:04PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> Vivek Goyal wrote: >>> o Extend the bzImage protocol (same as i386) to allow bzImage loaders to >>> load the protected mode kernel at non-1MB address. Now protected mode >>> component is relocatable and can be loaded at non-1MB addresses. >>> >>> o As of today kdump uses it to run a second kernel from a reserved memory >>> area. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal >> Do you have a patch for Documentation/i386/boot.txt as well? >> > > Yes. As documentation is shared between i386 and x86_64, It is already there > in Andi's tree and in -mm. I had pushed that with i386 relocatable bzImage > changes. > > http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.19-rc5/2.6.19-rc5-mm2/broken-out/x86_64-mm-extend-bzimage-protocol-for-relocatable-protected-mode-kernel.patch > Your documentation change is buggy. The fields at 0230/4 and 0234/1 are 2.05+ not 2.04+ Please fix, also please update the last revision date. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/