From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6A9EC433FE for ; Sat, 1 Oct 2022 22:46:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229605AbiJAWqA (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Oct 2022 18:46:00 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:57058 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229488AbiJAWp7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Oct 2022 18:45:59 -0400 Received: from mail.skyhub.de (mail.skyhub.de [5.9.137.197]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B1B0B3FA1F; Sat, 1 Oct 2022 15:45:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zn.tnic (p200300ea9733e7b3329c23fffea6a903.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [IPv6:2003:ea:9733:e7b3:329c:23ff:fea6:a903]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.skyhub.de (SuperMail on ZX Spectrum 128k) with ESMTPSA id 1FBFA1EC0657; Sun, 2 Oct 2022 00:45:52 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=alien8.de; s=dkim; t=1664664352; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:in-reply-to: references:references; bh=78ArbpS+MX7FxuZXq49R157qE0Wc8Xe7wlyjEwfZans=; b=EddN4d5SoC1sFt620IUcnZsknZ3P+dlpL5H+cYZkJofAn6uB6+nXDQrmbGtY1krLjZhFzf haIm1nyN2qI8dlSKYRlQ1KoqcM+LtkTbU1YAhEZtav1t6Cei0ACeyuVn33GJHirguwBYzP LkLNLlSLb7oHSjnZqQgGnqAdRh+lXQQ= Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2022 00:45:48 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov To: Ahmad Fatoum Cc: hpa@zytor.com, Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Dave Hansen , x86@kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet , barebox@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: x86: boot: reserve type_of_loader=13 for barebox Message-ID: References: <20220513143039.2065756-1-a.fatoum@pengutronix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20220513143039.2065756-1-a.fatoum@pengutronix.de> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 04:30:39PM +0200, Ahmad Fatoum wrote: > barebox built as EFI payload has been booting Linux on x86 with > type_of_loader=0xff since v2015.09.0. What is barebox? That https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barebox ? That version number v2015 - am I to understand it that it has been booting Linux since the year 2015? In any case, it would be useful to explain a bit what it is here. > Reserve 13, the next free id, so this can be used instead. Sure, I guess, why not. Thx. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette