[PATCH] Update 32 bit boot protocol

Simon Horman horms at verge.net.au
Wed May 21 02:12:27 EDT 2008


On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 06:43:55PM +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> This patch updates the boot protocol to match with the kernel. See
> Documentation/i386/zero-page.txt in kernel.
> 
> The number of E820 map entries have been increased from 32 to 128. The update
> is necessary for the next patch that implements EDD support for kexec.
> when using the default 32 bit mode.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle at suse.de>

Thanks, I have applied this change, though I
am a little confused about the relationship between
the information in (kernel/)Documentation/i386/zero-page.txt and
(kexec-tools-testing/)doc/linux-i386-zero-page.txt.

-- 
Horms




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