[patch 1/3 v2] Add function get_bootparam

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Nov 12 04:37:25 EST 2013


On 11/12/2013 12:30 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> And these binary data blobs are a "standard" somewhere, and will not
> change per kernel version change?
> 
> If so, that structure is fine with me.
> 

Correct.  The structure is documented in Documentation/x86/boot.txt, and
has been largely invariant (but extended) since the beginning of Linux.
 It has sometimes taken some serious work to keep it that way.

	-hpa





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