From 8b664aa66e824a0ddf4ec56d41fa0cf7bb374de6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Huang, Ying" Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:49:44 +0800 Subject: x86, boot: add linked list of struct setup_data This patch adds a field of 64-bit physical pointer to NULL terminated single linked list of struct setup_data to real-mode kernel header. This is used as a more extensible boot parameters passing mechanism. Signed-off-by: Huang Ying Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- arch/x86/boot/header.S | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/boot/header.S') diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/header.S b/arch/x86/boot/header.S index 6d2df8d61c54..af86e431acfa 100644 --- a/arch/x86/boot/header.S +++ b/arch/x86/boot/header.S @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ _start: # Part 2 of the header, from the old setup.S .ascii "HdrS" # header signature - .word 0x0208 # header version number (>= 0x0105) + .word 0x0209 # header version number (>= 0x0105) # or else old loadlin-1.5 will fail) .globl realmode_swtch realmode_swtch: .word 0, 0 # default_switch, SETUPSEG @@ -227,6 +227,10 @@ hardware_subarch_data: .quad 0 payload_offset: .long input_data payload_length: .long input_data_end-input_data +setup_data: .quad 0 # 64-bit physical pointer to + # single linked list of + # struct setup_data + # End of setup header ##################################################### .section ".inittext", "ax" -- cgit v1.2.3