From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>,
Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Fix boot protocol KEEP_SEGMENTS check.
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:49:22 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200710311149.23006.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1r6jh3hun.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
On Saturday 27 October 2007 03:29:04 Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> The kernel only ever supports 1 version of the boot protocol
> so there is no need to check the boot protocol revision to
> see if a feature is supported.
OK, I'm completely confused, so this is probably a v. dumb question. Doesn't
this boot header come from the boot loader?
Rusty.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-31 0:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-26 17:29 [PATCH] x86: Fix boot protocol KEEP_SEGMENTS check Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-26 17:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-10-26 18:22 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-26 18:52 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-26 19:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-10-31 0:49 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2007-10-31 1:10 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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