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From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86,setup: add serial_console_port_base in boot_params
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2010 01:31:38 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100731213138.GC29357@lenovo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C548F7D.6000509@zytor.com>

On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 02:02:53PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 07/31/2010 11:32 AM, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> >>
> >> No, this is the internal part of the boot protocol, so it's not an issue.
> >>
> > 
> > Peter, I didn't mean any issue here, I meant that bootloaders don't know about
> > this field yet and they will have to update own sources to pass port value
> > at proper place of boot params. Or I miss something?
> > 
> 
> Boot loaders that use the 16-bit entry point are unaffected.
> 
> Boot loaders which use the 32-bit entry point but properly clears the
> zero page simply will not have the feature.
> 
> Boot loaders which use the 32-bit entry point but doesn't clear the zero
> page are broken.
> 
> 	-hpa
>

Well, Peter, seems I messed boot params with setup header. So I don't see
any user of this field then, hmm...

	-- Cyrill

  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-31 21:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-15 22:27 [PATCH] x86,setup: add serial_console_port_base in boot_params Yinghai Lu
2010-07-16  0:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-07-16  1:30   ` Yinghai Lu
2010-07-31  8:34 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-07-31 18:21   ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-07-31 18:32     ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-07-31 21:02       ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-07-31 21:31         ` Cyrill Gorcunov [this message]
2010-08-01  1:53         ` Yinghai Lu
2010-08-01  2:42           ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-08-01  5:20             ` Yinghai Lu
2010-08-03  2:03               ` Eric W. Biederman

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