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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
	Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Fix boot protocol KEEP_SEGMENTS check.
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:49:22 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200710311149.23006.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1r6jh3hun.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>

On Saturday 27 October 2007 03:29:04 Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> The kernel only ever supports 1 version of the boot protocol
> so there is no need to check the boot protocol revision to
> see if a feature is supported.

OK, I'm completely confused, so this is probably a v. dumb question.  Doesn't 
this boot header come from the boot loader?

Rusty.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-31  0:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-26 17:29 [PATCH] x86: Fix boot protocol KEEP_SEGMENTS check Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-26 17:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-10-26 18:22   ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-26 18:52 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-26 19:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-10-31  0:49 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2007-10-31  1:10   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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