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authorH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>2005-09-06 22:17:24 (GMT)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-09-07 23:57:29 (GMT)
commitf8eeaaf4180334a8e5c3582fe62a5f8176a8c124 (patch)
treef2db782c1a67c1d632942d43b68bd2c5c7c3981d /arch/x86_64
parent5e1efe4931bf7d95b2f3d48ca0b79ea0e8341cc2 (diff)
downloadlinux-f8eeaaf4180334a8e5c3582fe62a5f8176a8c124.tar.xz
[PATCH] Make the bzImage format self-terminating
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Frank Sorenson <frank@tuxrocks.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86_64')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86_64/boot/setup.S2
-rw-r--r--arch/x86_64/boot/tools/build.c4
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/boot/setup.S b/arch/x86_64/boot/setup.S
index ff58b28..12ea0b6 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/boot/setup.S
+++ b/arch/x86_64/boot/setup.S
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ start:
# This is the setup header, and it must start at %cs:2 (old 0x9020:2)
.ascii "HdrS" # header signature
- .word 0x0203 # header version number (>= 0x0105)
+ .word 0x0204 # header version number (>= 0x0105)
# or else old loadlin-1.5 will fail)
realmode_swtch: .word 0, 0 # default_switch, SETUPSEG
start_sys_seg: .word SYSSEG
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/boot/tools/build.c b/arch/x86_64/boot/tools/build.c
index 18b5bac..c44f5e2 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/boot/tools/build.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/boot/tools/build.c
@@ -178,7 +178,9 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv)
die("Output: seek failed");
buf[0] = (sys_size & 0xff);
buf[1] = ((sys_size >> 8) & 0xff);
- if (write(1, buf, 2) != 2)
+ buf[2] = ((sys_size >> 16) & 0xff);
+ buf[3] = ((sys_size >> 24) & 0xff);
+ if (write(1, buf, 4) != 4)
die("Write of image length failed");
return 0; /* Everything is OK */