From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753919Ab2KUApu (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:45:50 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:45630 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753136Ab2KUApt (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:45:49 -0500 Message-ID: <50AC2428.30905@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:45:28 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121029 Thunderbird/16.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Yinghai Lu CC: Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "Eric W. Biederman" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Matt Fleming Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 03/13] x86: Add macro for 64bit entry startup_64 References: <1353222571-31544-1-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org> <1353222571-31544-4-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org> <50AAB5E8.5070807@zytor.com> <50AABD15.1050809@zytor.com> <41603b4d-cd34-4c6e-9e1f-ac78816b5097@email.android.com> <23b6f8fe-37cd-4cbb-9c90-511dab4e5b5b@email.android.com> <50ABF23A.7020305@zytor.com> <50AC2022.5030207@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 11/20/2012 04:34 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 4:28 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >>> On 11/20/2012 04:20 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote: >>>> >>>>> relocatable_kernel really should have been a flag, but it is now defined as >>>>> a comparison with zero. As such, and in an effort to minimize the growth of >>>>> struct setup_header (it is limited to little over 128 bytes long) I suggest >>>>> we redefine the 16-byte field at offset 0x236 as a new flags field. We >>>>> still only need one flag, though. >> >> ok will use 0x236. > > how to call it? > > boot_flag2 ? > Lets say "xloadflags". -hpa