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[PATCH] x86-64: Extend bzImage protocol for relocatable bzImage
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o Extend the bzImage protocol (same as i386) to allow bzImage loaders to
  load the protected mode kernel at non-1MB address. Now protected mode
  component is relocatable and can be loaded at non-1MB addresses.

o As of today kdump uses it to run a second kernel from a reserved memory
  area.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Vivek Goyal authored and Andi Kleen committed May 2, 2007
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13 changes: 11 additions & 2 deletions arch/x86_64/boot/setup.S
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# This is the setup header, and it must start at %cs:2 (old 0x9020:2)

.ascii "HdrS" # header signature
.word 0x0204 # header version number (>= 0x0105)
.word 0x0205 # header version number (>= 0x0105)
# or else old loadlin-1.5 will fail)
realmode_swtch: .word 0, 0 # default_switch, SETUPSEG
start_sys_seg: .word SYSSEG
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# low memory 0x10000 or higher.

ramdisk_max: .long 0xffffffff

kernel_alignment: .long 0x200000 # physical addr alignment required for
# protected mode relocatable kernel
#ifdef CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
relocatable_kernel: .byte 1
#else
relocatable_kernel: .byte 0
#endif
pad2: .byte 0
pad3: .word 0

trampoline: call start_of_setup
.align 16
# The offset at this point is 0x240
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