From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.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: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:02:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C548F7D.6000509@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100731183211.GB29357@lenovo>
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
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-31 21:03 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 [this message]
2010-07-31 21:31 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
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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