Re: [patch 1/3 v2] Add function get_bootparam

H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-12T09:37:25Z

On 11/12/2013 12:30 AM, Greg KH wrote:
>
> And these binary data blobs are a "standard" somewhere, and will not
> change per kernel version change?
>
> If so, that structure is fine with me.
>

Correct. The structure is documented in Documentation/x86/boot.txt, and
has been largely invariant (but extended) since the beginning of Linux.
It has sometimes taken some serious work to keep it that way.

-hpa