From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1163408AbXD1SIr (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Apr 2007 14:08:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1163407AbXD1SIR (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Apr 2007 14:08:17 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:53007 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1163399AbXD1SIC (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Apr 2007 14:08:02 -0400 Message-ID: <46338D72.70402@garzik.org> Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 14:07:46 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: Vivek Goyal , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, patches@x86-64.org, "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [PATCH] [21/22] x86_64: Extend bzImage protocol for relocatable bzImage References: <20070428758.455116000@suse.de> <20070428175909.1D09D151CA@wotan.suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20070428175909.1D09D151CA@wotan.suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.8 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andi Kleen wrote: > From: Vivek Goyal > > > 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 > Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal > Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Can you point to / link to threads where the bootloader folks looked over the reloc changes from their side, and commented? Jeff