From: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>,
Chandramouli Narayanan <mouli@linux.intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC -mm 1/2] i386/x86_64 boot: setup data
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:11:47 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1190077907.12429.5.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46EE9D94.9030608@zytor.com>
On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 08:30 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Huang, Ying wrote:
> > This patch add a field of 64-bit physical pointer to NULL terminated
> > single linked list of struct setup_data to real-mode kernel
> > header. This is used to define a more extensible boot parameters
> > passing mechanism.
>
> You MUST NOT add a field like this without changing the version number,
> and, since you expect to enter the kernel at the PM entrypoint, you
> better *CHECK* that version number before ever descending down the chain.
>
I forgot changing the version number in boot/head.S. I will add it. And
I will add version number checking before descending down the chain.
Best Regards,
Huang Ying
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-18 1:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-17 8:26 [RFC -mm 1/2] i386/x86_64 boot: setup data Huang, Ying
2007-09-17 15:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-09-18 1:11 ` Huang, Ying [this message]
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