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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, SYSLINUX@zytor.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] /proc/sys/kernel/bootloader_type
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 01:34:43 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041231013443.313a3320.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41D34E3A.3090708@zytor.com>

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>
> This patch exports to userspace the boot loader ID which has been 
>  exported by (b)zImage boot loaders since boot protocol version 2.

Why does userspace need to know this?

>  --- linux-2.5/arch/i386/Makefile	24 Dec 2004 21:09:54 -0000	1.73
>  +++ linux-2.5/arch/i386/Makefile	28 Dec 2004 04:56:17 -0000
>  @@ -20,6 +20,10 @@
>   LDFLAGS_vmlinux :=
>   CHECKFLAGS	+= -D__i386__
>   
>  +# This allows compilation with an x86-64 compiler
>  +CC_M32		:= $(call cc-option,-m32)
>  +CC 		+= $(CC_M32)

Was this hunk deliberately a part of this patch?

  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-31  9:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-30  0:39 [PATCH] /proc/sys/kernel/bootloader_type H. Peter Anvin
2004-12-31  9:34 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-12-31 10:12   ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-12-31 14:24     ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2004-12-31 14:36       ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-12-31 20:10   ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-01-01 20:22 ` Kay Sievers
2005-01-02  8:56   ` Lethalman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-01-01  9:39 Lethalman

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