On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 01:40:10PM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> I thought Dave passed relevant information on bootparams and some in
> cmdline (I have not looked at details). Once the EFI support is in,
> kernel implementaion should do the same thing as kexec-tools is doing
> to pass EFI mapping inf
On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 05:37:22PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
[..]
> > > > +struct bzimage64_data {
> > > > + /*
> > > > +* Temporary buffer to hold bootparams buffer. This should be
> > > > +* freed once the bootparam segment has been loaded.
> > > > +*/
> > > > +
On 03/05/2014 08:37 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>>
>> If the "HdrS" (0x53726448) magic number is not found at offset 0x202,
>> the boot protocol version is "old". Loading an old kernel, the
>> following parameters should be assumed:
>>
>> Image type = zImage
>> initrd not supported
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:31:35AM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> Thanks for taking time to review this large patchset.
Sure, np. Thanks for your patience in explaining stuff which is unclear
to me.
> > > +struct bzimage64_data {
> > > + /*
> > > + * Temporary buffer to hold bootparams buffer. This
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 10:36:29PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
Hi Boris,
Thanks for taking time to review this large patchset. Please find
my comments inline.
[..]
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile b/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
> > index cb648c8..fa9981d 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/M
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 01:57:48PM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> This is loader specific code which can load bzImage and set it up for
> 64bit entry. This does not take care of 32bit entry or real mode entry
> yet.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal
> ---
checkpatch: total: 4 errors, 2 warnings, 450 l
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 10:38:24AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 01/27/2014 10:57 AM, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > This is loader specific code which can load bzImage and set it up for
> > 64bit entry. This does not take care of 32bit entry or real mode entry
> > yet.
>
> Is there any use in that?
On 01/27/2014 10:57 AM, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> This is loader specific code which can load bzImage and set it up for
> 64bit entry. This does not take care of 32bit entry or real mode entry
> yet.
Is there any use in that? Real mode entry especially is more than a bit
scary when coming from another
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