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authorIan Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>2008-04-27 12:21:11 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-04-29 13:45:24 +0200
commit4c0587e6e42c5b679234d3dffda8a888dc0ff9c1 (patch)
treeb1e03f3d18c256376fd87c5d9bc0c1ed21d75dbf /Documentation/i386
parent781fe2ebc0f44b32418d203ac023a541afdd042f (diff)
x86: add more boot protocol documentation
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/i386/boot.txt12
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/i386/boot.txt b/Documentation/i386/boot.txt
index 0fac3465f2e..95ad15c3b01 100644
--- a/Documentation/i386/boot.txt
+++ b/Documentation/i386/boot.txt
@@ -40,9 +40,17 @@ Protocol 2.05: (Kernel 2.6.20) Make protected mode kernel relocatable.
Introduce relocatable_kernel and kernel_alignment fields.
Protocol 2.06: (Kernel 2.6.22) Added a field that contains the size of
- the boot command line
+ the boot command line.
-Protocol 2.09: (kernel 2.6.26) Added a field of 64-bit physical
+Protocol 2.07: (Kernel 2.6.24) Added paravirtualised boot protocol.
+ Introduced hardware_subarch and hardware_subarch_data
+ and KEEP_SEGMENTS flag in load_flags.
+
+Protocol 2.08: (Kernel 2.6.26) Added crc32 checksum and ELF format
+ payload. Introduced payload_offset and payload length
+ fields to aid in locating the payload.
+
+Protocol 2.09: (Kernel 2.6.26) Added a field of 64-bit physical
pointer to single linked list of struct setup_data.
**** MEMORY LAYOUT