From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 03/13] x86: Add macro for 64bit entry startup_64
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:45:28 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50AC2428.30905@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE9FiQXibjTQOGL9a1EJD=nCe4AjbF0kqOaOSXi3tm4u0zF26Q@mail.gmail.com>
On 11/20/2012 04:34 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 4:28 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>>> On 11/20/2012 04:20 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> relocatable_kernel really should have been a flag, but it is now defined as
>>>>> a comparison with zero. As such, and in an effort to minimize the growth of
>>>>> struct setup_header (it is limited to little over 128 bytes long) I suggest
>>>>> we redefine the 16-byte field at offset 0x236 as a new flags field. We
>>>>> still only need one flag, though.
>>
>> ok will use 0x236.
>
> how to call it?
>
> boot_flag2 ?
>
Lets say "xloadflags".
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-21 0:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-18 7:09 [PATCH v2 00/13] x86, boot, 64bit: Add support for loading ramdisk and bzImage high Yinghai Lu
2012-11-18 7:09 ` [PATCH v2 01/13] x86, boot: move verify_cpu.S after 0x200 Yinghai Lu
2012-11-18 7:09 ` [PATCH v2 02/13] x86, boot: Move lldt/ltr out of 64bit code section Yinghai Lu
2012-11-18 7:09 ` [PATCH v2 03/13] x86: Add macro for 64bit entry startup_64 Yinghai Lu
2012-11-19 22:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-11-19 22:53 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-11-19 23:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-11-19 23:46 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-11-19 23:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-11-20 0:39 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-11-20 19:20 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-11-20 20:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-11-20 20:55 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-11-20 21:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-11-21 0:20 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-11-21 0:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-11-21 0:32 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-11-21 0:34 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-11-21 0:45 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2012-11-18 7:09 ` [PATCH v2 04/13] x86, 64bit: set extra ident page table for whole kernel range Yinghai Lu
2012-11-18 7:09 ` [PATCH v2 05/13] x86, 64bit: add support for loading kernel above 512G Yinghai Lu
2012-11-18 7:09 ` [PATCH v2 06/13] x86: Merge early_reserve_initrd for 32bit and 64bit Yinghai Lu
2012-11-18 7:09 ` [PATCH v2 07/13] x86: add get_ramdisk_image/size Yinghai Lu
2012-11-18 7:09 ` [PATCH v2 08/13] x86, boot: add get_cmd_line_ptr() Yinghai Lu
2012-11-18 7:09 ` [PATCH v2 09/13] x86, boot: Don't check if cmd_line_ptr is accessible in misc/decompressor() Yinghai Lu
2012-11-18 7:09 ` [PATCH v2 10/13] x86, boot: update cmd_line_ptr to unsigned long Yinghai Lu
2012-11-18 7:09 ` [PATCH v2 11/13] x86: use io_remap to access real_mode_data Yinghai Lu
2012-11-18 7:09 ` [PATCH v2 12/13] x86, boot: add fields to support load bzImage and ramdisk high Yinghai Lu
2012-11-18 7:09 ` [PATCH v2 13/13] x86: remove 1024g limitation for kexec buffer on 64bit Yinghai Lu
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