From be274eeaf20b4c7155242645d5e2c48b023e609b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vivek Goyal Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 02:14:04 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] i386: extend bzImage protocol for relocatable protected mode kernel Extend bzImage protocol to enable bootloaders to load a completely relocatable bzImage. Now protected mode component of kernel is also relocatable and a boot-loader can load the protected mode component at a differnt physical address than 1MB. (If kernel was built with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE) Kexec can make use of it to load this kernel at a different physical address to capture kernel crash dumps. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Cc: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- Documentation/i386/boot.txt | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/i386') diff --git a/Documentation/i386/boot.txt b/Documentation/i386/boot.txt index c51314b1a463..cb28254f1550 100644 --- a/Documentation/i386/boot.txt +++ b/Documentation/i386/boot.txt @@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ Protocol 2.03: (Kernel 2.4.18-pre1) Explicitly makes the highest possible initrd address available to the bootloader. Protocol 2.04: (Kernel 2.6.14) Extend the syssize field to four bytes. +Protocol 2.05: (Kernel 2.6.20) Make protected mode kernel relocatable. + Introduce relocatable_kernel and kernel_alignment fields. **** MEMORY LAYOUT @@ -129,6 +131,8 @@ Offset Proto Name Meaning 0226/2 N/A pad1 Unused 0228/4 2.02+ cmd_line_ptr 32-bit pointer to the kernel command line 022C/4 2.03+ initrd_addr_max Highest legal initrd address +0230/4 2.04+ kernel_alignment Physical addr alignment required for kernel +0234/1 2.04+ relocatable_kernel Whether kernel is relocatable or not (1) For backwards compatibility, if the setup_sects field contains 0, the real value is 4. -- cgit v1.2.3