[PATCH] EFI zero-page usage (keeping docs updated)

[PATCH] EFI zero-page usage (keeping docs updated)

[Randy.Dunlap]

Add x86 EFI zero-page usage to i386 docs.

Please apply to 2.6.current...

--
~Randy



diffstat:=
 Documentation/i386/zero-page.txt |    5 +++++
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff -Naurp ./Documentation/i386/zero-page.txt~efidocs ./Documentation/i386/zero-page.txt
--- ./Documentation/i386/zero-page.txt~efidocs	2004-01-08 22:59:26.000000000 -0800
+++ ./Documentation/i386/zero-page.txt	2004-01-14 16:36:42.000000000 -0800
@@ -30,6 +30,11 @@ Offset	Type		Description
 			( struct sys_desc_table_struct )
  0xb0 - 0x1df		Free. Add more parameters here if you really need them.
 
+0x1c4	unsigned long	EFI system table pointer
+0x1c8	unsigned long	EFI memory descriptor size
+0x1cc	unsigned long	EFI memory descriptor version
+0x1d0	unsigned long	EFI memory descriptor map pointer
+0x1d4	unsigned long	EFI memory descriptor map size
 0x1e0	unsigned long	ALT_MEM_K, alternative mem check, in Kb
 0x1e8	char		number of entries in E820MAP (below)
 0x1e9	unsigned char	number of entries in EDDBUF (below)

Re: [PATCH] EFI zero-page usage (keeping docs updated)

[Stefan Smietanowski]

Hi Randy.

> Add x86 EFI zero-page usage to i386 docs.
> 
> Please apply to 2.6.current...
>   0xb0 - 0x1df		Free. Add more parameters here if you really need them.
            ^^^^^
>  
> +0x1c4	unsigned long	EFI system table pointer
> +0x1c8	unsigned long	EFI memory descriptor size
> +0x1cc	unsigned long	EFI memory descriptor version
> +0x1d0	unsigned long	EFI memory descriptor map pointer
> +0x1d4	unsigned long	EFI memory descriptor map size
>  0x1e0	unsigned long	ALT_MEM_K, alternative mem check, in Kb
>  0x1e8	char		number of entries in E820MAP (below)
>  0x1e9	unsigned char	number of entries in EDDBUF (below)

Change that to 0x1c3 instead since it's now used by EFI :)

// Stefan

Re: [PATCH] EFI zero-page usage (keeping docs updated)

[Randy.Dunlap]

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 03:35:09 +0100 Stefan Smietanowski <stesmi@stesmi.com> wrote:

| Hi Randy.
| 
| > Add x86 EFI zero-page usage to i386 docs.
| > 
| > Please apply to 2.6.current...
| >   0xb0 - 0x1df		Free. Add more parameters here if you really need them.
|             ^^^^^
| 
| Change that to 0x1c3 instead since it's now used by EFI :)

Thanks, Stefan.
Here's the updated patch.



Add x86 EFI zero-page usage to i386 docs.

Please apply.

KERNELRELEASE:	2.6.1

diffstat:=
 Documentation/i386/zero-page.txt |    7 ++++++-
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -Naurp ./Documentation/i386/zero-page.txt~efidocs ./Documentation/i386/zero-page.txt
--- ./Documentation/i386/zero-page.txt~efidocs	2004-01-08 22:59:26.000000000 -0800
+++ ./Documentation/i386/zero-page.txt	2004-01-15 09:26:06.000000000 -0800
@@ -28,8 +28,13 @@ Offset	Type		Description
 
  0xa0	16 bytes	System description table truncated to 16 bytes.
 			( struct sys_desc_table_struct )
- 0xb0 - 0x1df		Free. Add more parameters here if you really need them.
+ 0xb0 - 0x1c3		Free. Add more parameters here if you really need them.
 
+0x1c4	unsigned long	EFI system table pointer
+0x1c8	unsigned long	EFI memory descriptor size
+0x1cc	unsigned long	EFI memory descriptor version
+0x1d0	unsigned long	EFI memory descriptor map pointer
+0x1d4	unsigned long	EFI memory descriptor map size
 0x1e0	unsigned long	ALT_MEM_K, alternative mem check, in Kb
 0x1e8	char		number of entries in E820MAP (below)
 0x1e9	unsigned char	number of entries in EDDBUF (below)