Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756125AbWKRBsZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Nov 2006 20:48:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756126AbWKRBsZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Nov 2006 20:48:25 -0500 Received: from e33.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.151]:19431 "EHLO e33.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756125AbWKRBsZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Nov 2006 20:48:25 -0500 Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 20:47:53 -0500 From: Vivek Goyal To: "H. Peter Anvin" 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 Message-ID: <20061118014753.GB25205@in.ibm.com> Reply-To: vgoyal@in.ibm.com References: <20061117223432.GA15449@in.ibm.com> <20061117225826.GT15449@in.ibm.com> <455E540C.6090202@zytor.com> <20061118003718.GB4321@in.ibm.com> <455E57BA.7060309@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <455E57BA.7060309@zytor.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1485 Lines: 39 On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 04:45:46PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > 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. Thanks for noticing this. Just now sent a patch in separate thread to fix this. Thanks Vivek - 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/