From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.5.12] x86 Boot enhancements, boot protocol 2.04 9/11
Date: 2 May 2002 13:39:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aas85i$qpq$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m11ycuzk4q.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> <m1adriy4im.fsf_-_@frodo.biederman.org> <m16626y4et.fsf_-_@frodo.biederman.org> <m11ycuy48d.fsf_-_@frodo.biederman.org>
Followup to: <m11ycuy48d.fsf_-_@frodo.biederman.org>
By author: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> +0200/2 2.00+ jump Jump instruction
I would like to make it an explicit part of the protocol that the jump
instruction must jump to the first byte following the header. It can
therefore be used to determine the end of the header.
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-02 20:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-02 14:42 [PATCH 2.5.12] x86 Boot enhancements, boot params 1/11 Eric W. Biederman
2002-04-27 2:56 ` Pavel Machek
2002-05-06 10:13 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-05-06 15:19 ` Pavel Machek
2002-05-06 17:55 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-05-06 20:20 ` Pavel Machek
2002-05-02 14:45 ` [PATCH 2.5.12] x86 Boot enhancements, linker fixes 2/11 Eric W. Biederman
2002-05-02 14:48 ` [PATCH 2.5.12] x86 Boot enhancements, bzImage/zImage code differentiation 3/11 Eric W. Biederman
2002-05-02 14:51 ` [PATCH 2.5.12] x86 Boot enhancements, constants 4/11 Eric W. Biederman
2002-05-02 14:55 ` [PATCH 2.5.12] x86 Boot enhancements, heap 5/11 Eric W. Biederman
2002-05-02 15:00 ` [PATCH 2.5.12] x86 Boot enhancements, 32bit entries 6/11 Eric W. Biederman
2002-04-27 4:53 ` Pavel Machek
2002-05-02 15:05 ` [PATCH 2.5.12] x86 Boot enhancements, footprint reduction 7/11 Eric W. Biederman
2002-05-02 15:07 ` [PATCH 2.5.12] x86 Boot enhancements, build beancounting 8/11 Eric W. Biederman
2002-05-02 15:11 ` [PATCH 2.5.12] x86 Boot enhancements, boot protocol 2.04 9/11 Eric W. Biederman
2002-05-02 15:13 ` [PATCH 2.5.12] x86 Boot enhancements, LinuxBIOS support 10/11 Eric W. Biederman
2002-05-02 15:15 ` [PATCH 2.5.12] x86 Boot enhancements, bzElf support 11/11 Eric W. Biederman
2002-05-02 20:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-05-02 20:39 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2002-05-02 20:45 ` [PATCH 2.5.12] x86 Boot enhancements, boot protocol 2.04 9/11 H. Peter Anvin
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