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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Fix boot protocol KEEP_SEGMENTS check.
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:49:22 +1100
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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.