Re: [git pull] "big box" x86 changes, boot protocol

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Ian Campbell wrote:
> 
> How about this. I can redo against current Linus but that will need
> fixups here.
> 
> From cfed8d4043fc03ed948518076db602919b111a16 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
> Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:19:11 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] Backfill x86 boot protocol documentation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
> ---
>  Documentation/i386/boot.txt |   12 ++++++++++--
>  1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/i386/boot.txt b/Documentation/i386/boot.txt
> index 0fac346..86fbbd0 100644
> --- a/Documentation/i386/boot.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/i386/boot.txt
> @@ -40,9 +40,17 @@ Protocol 2.05:	(Kernel 2.6.20) Make protected mode kernel relocatable.
>  		Introduce relocatable_kernel and kernel_alignment fields.
>  
>  Protocol 2.06:	(Kernel 2.6.22) Added a field that contains the size of
> -		the boot command line
> +		the boot command line.
>  
> -Protocol 2.09:	(kernel 2.6.26) Added a field of 64-bit physical
> +Protocol 2.07:	(Kernel 2.6.24) Added paravirtualised boot protocol.
> +		Introduced hardware_subarch and hardware_subarch_data
> +		and KEEP_SEGMENTS flag in load_flags.
> +
> +Protocol 2.08:	(Kernel 2.6.26) Added crc32 checksum and ELF format
> +		payload. Introduced payload_offset and payload length
> +		fields to aid in locating the payload.
> +
> +Protocol 2.09:	(Kernel 2.6.26) Added a field of 64-bit physical
>  		pointer to single linked list of struct	setup_data.
>  

Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

Since this is a documentation fix, it can wait until post-window.

	-hpa