From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753873AbXISFdZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:33:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751666AbXISFdS (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:33:18 -0400 Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:19054 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750756AbXISFdR (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:33:17 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.20,271,1186383600"; d="scan'208";a="298253680" Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm -v2 2/2] i386/x86_64 boot: document for 32 bit boot protocol From: "Huang, Ying" To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Andi Kleen , "Eric W. Biederman" , akpm@linux-foundation.org, Yinghai Lu , Chandramouli Narayanan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <46F0B3F4.10701@zytor.com> References: <1190171428.12429.63.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com> <46F0B3F4.10701@zytor.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 13:35:10 +0800 Message-Id: <1190180110.12429.65.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.3 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Sep 2007 05:33:13.0742 (UTC) FILETIME=[92B3AAE0:01C7FA7E] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 22:30 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Huang, Ying wrote: > > Known issues: > > > > - The hd0_info and hd1_info are deleted from the zero page. Additional > > work should be done for this? Or this is unnecessary (because no new > > fields will be added to zero page)? > > > > For backwards compatibility, they should be marked as there for the > short-medium term so we don't reuse them for whatever reason. OK, I will add them back. Best Regards, Huang Ying