Re: [PATCH] [21/22] x86_64: Extend bzImage protocol for relocatablebzImage

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Sat Apr 28 2007 - 14:09:30 EST


Andi Kleen wrote:
From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>


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@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>

Can you point to / link to threads where the bootloader folks looked over the reloc changes from their side, and commented?

Jeff



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