Re: [PATCH v6 18/27] x86, boot: add fields to support load bzImageand ramdisk above 4G

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Thu Dec 13 2012 - 18:28:33 EST


On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 2:54 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 0x1f0 is unsuitable for use as sentinel -- or in fact for any purpose --
> because it is quite plausible that someone may (fairly sanely) start the
> copy range at 0x1f0 instead of 0x1f1... we really should have documented
> it that way but it is too late now.
>
> However, we can use 0x1ef.

right. updated to use 0x1ef.

Thanks

Yinghai

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