Re: [PATCH v4 10/11] x86, boot: add fields to support load bzImageand ramdisk above 4G

[Yinghai Lu]

On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ext_ramdisk_image/size will record high 32bits for ramdisk info.
>
> xloadflags bit0 will be set if relocatable with 64bit.
>
> Let get_ramdisk_image/size to use ext_ramdisk_image/size to get
> right positon for ramdisk.
>
> bootloader will fill value to ext_ramdisk_image/size when it load
> ramdisk above 4G.
>
> Also bootloader will check if xloadflags bit0 is set to decicde if
> it could load ramdisk high above 4G.
>
> Update header version to 2.12.
>
> -v2: add ext_cmd_line_ptr for above 4G support.
> -v3: update to xloadflags from HPA.
> -v4: use fields from bootparam instead setup_header accoring to HPA.

-v5 attached...

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