Re: [PATCH v7u1 23/31] x86, boot: update comments about entries for64bit image

[Yinghai Lu]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 3:20 AM, Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> the boot loader should
>> +also fill the additional fields of the struct boot_params as that
>
>                                                         remove "that"
>
>> +described in zero-page.txt.
>
> Btw, you could document the sentinel mechanism here or in zero-page.txt,
> for example.


that is:
---
The memory for struct boot_params
could be allocated anywhere (even above 4G) and initialized to all zero.
---

bootloader memset zero_page at first means.
and all bootloader did that except kexec. and it is fixed patches for
kexec-tools.
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