Rusty Russell wrote:
>
> BTW, wrt. a new "platform type" field, should it go something like this?
>
> -0235/3 N/A pad2 Unused
> +0235/1 2.07+ platform_type Runtime platform (see below)
> +0236/2 N/A pad2 Unused
> ...
> + platform_type:
> + For kernels which can boot on multiple platforms. Currently
> + 0 == native (normal), 1 == lguest (paravirtualized).
>
Well, yes, but we need to think about if there is more things that
should be added. There *definitely* should be space for a platform data
pointer, to start out with. I would also like to see a platform data
field, as well as a bootloader extension field (we're going to have that
problem soon enough.)
-hpa
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