From: Frank Sorenson <frank@tuxrocks.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make the bzImage format self-terminating
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 15:48:03 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4318C893.1000009@tuxrocks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4318C3F6.6000004@zytor.com>
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H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> I'm proposing the attached patch to replace Frank Sorenson's
> i386-buildc-write-out-larger-system-size-to-bootsector patch currently
> in -mm. The goal (presumably) is to make the bzImage format
> self-terminating.
>
> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Looks good to me. Using the 2 additional bytes allows the header to
contain the full system size for a very long time, and your patch
includes documentation and x86_64.
Frank
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Frank Sorenson - KD7TZK
Systems Manager, Computer Science Department
Brigham Young University
frank@tuxrocks.com
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2005-09-02 21:28 ` [PATCH] Make the bzImage format self-terminating H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-02 21:48 ` Frank Sorenson [this message]
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