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2013-01-27x86, boot: Define the 2.12 bzImage boot protocolH. Peter Anvin
Define the 2.12 bzImage boot protocol: add xloadflags and additional fields to allow the command line, initramfs and struct boot_params to live above the 4 GiB mark. The xloadflags now communicates if this is a 64-bit kernel with the legacy 64-bit entry point and which of the EFI handover entry points are supported. Avoid adding new read flags to loadflags because of claimed bootloaders testing the whole byte for == 1 to determine bzImageness at least until the issue can be researched further. This is based on patches by Yinghai Lu and David Woodhouse. Originally-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Originally-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359058816-7615-26-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Cc: Gokul Caushik <caushik1@gmail.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Joe Millenbach <jmillenbach@gmail.com>
2009-10-16x86: Document linker script ASSERT() quirkIngo Molnar
Older binutils breaks if ASSERT() is used without a sink for the output. For example 2.14.90.0.6 is known to be broken, the link fails with: LD .tmp_vmlinux1 ld:arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds:678: parse error Document this quirk in all three files that use it. See: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kbuild&m=124930110427870&w=2 See[2]: d2ba8b2 ("x86: Fix assert syntax in vmlinux.lds.S") Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> LKML-Reference: <4AD6523D.5030909@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-09x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS calls -- infrastructureH. Peter Anvin
Impact: new interfaces (not yet used) For all the platforms out there, there is an infinite number of buggy BIOSes. This adds infrastructure to treat BIOS interrupts more like toxic waste and "glove box" them -- we switch out the register set, perform the BIOS interrupt, and then restore the previous state. LKML-Reference: <49DE7F79.4030106@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2009-03-17x86, setup: move 32-bit code to .text32H. Peter Anvin
Impact: cleanup The setup code is mostly 16-bit code, but there is a small stub of 32-bit code at the end. Move the 32-bit code to a separate segment, .text32, to avoid scrambling the disassembly. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2007-10-11i386: move bootThomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>