From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Proposed update of the i386 boot document
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 15:42:19 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070517101219.GE28280@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <464BABB2.5020104@zytor.com>
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 06:11:14PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> I have noticed that a few items in the i386 boot document have become a
> bit incoherent and/or dated over the years. Attached is an attempt at
> rewriting a few of the sections; the main things is a field-by-field
> description for the setup header.
>
> I would appreciate comments as to if this makes it easier to follow or not.
>
Overall looks good to me. Especially for relocatable kernel, to a boot
loader now it is more clear what is the meaning of different fields
and need to modify code32_start if protected mode kernel was loaded
at non 1MB address.
Thanks
Vivek
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-17 10:12 UTC|newest]
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2007-05-17 1:11 Proposed update of the i386 boot document H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-17 10:12 ` Vivek Goyal [this message]
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