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?
next prev parent 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
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2005-01-01 9:39 Lethalman
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