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x86: add more boot protocol documentation
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Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ian Campbell authored and Ingo Molnar committed Apr 29, 2008
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Expand Up @@ -40,9 +40,17 @@ Protocol 2.05: (Kernel 2.6.20) Make protected mode kernel relocatable.
Introduce relocatable_kernel and kernel_alignment fields.

Protocol 2.06: (Kernel 2.6.22) Added a field that contains the size of
the boot command line
the boot command line.

Protocol 2.09: (kernel 2.6.26) Added a field of 64-bit physical
Protocol 2.07: (Kernel 2.6.24) Added paravirtualised boot protocol.
Introduced hardware_subarch and hardware_subarch_data
and KEEP_SEGMENTS flag in load_flags.

Protocol 2.08: (Kernel 2.6.26) Added crc32 checksum and ELF format
payload. Introduced payload_offset and payload length
fields to aid in locating the payload.

Protocol 2.09: (Kernel 2.6.26) Added a field of 64-bit physical
pointer to single linked list of struct setup_data.

**** MEMORY LAYOUT
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