From 4c0587e6e42c5b679234d3dffda8a888dc0ff9c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Campbell Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:21:11 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] x86: add more boot protocol documentation Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Documentation/i386/boot.txt | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/i386/boot.txt b/Documentation/i386/boot.txt index 0fac3465f2e3..95ad15c3b01f 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