The patch titled update boot spec to 2.07 has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was update-boot-spec-to-207.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: update boot spec to 2.07 From: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Updates for version 2.07 of the boot protocol. This includes: load_flags.KEEP_SEGMENTS- flag to request/inhibit segment reloads hardware_subarch - what subarchitecture we're booting under hardware_subarch_data - per-architecture data The intention of these changes is to make booting a paravirtualized kernel work via the normal Linux boot protocol. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/i386/boot.txt | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets_32.c | 7 +++++ include/asm-x86/bootparam.h | 9 +++++-- 3 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN Documentation/i386/boot.txt~update-boot-spec-to-207 Documentation/i386/boot.txt --- a/Documentation/i386/boot.txt~update-boot-spec-to-207 +++ a/Documentation/i386/boot.txt @@ -168,6 +168,8 @@ Offset Proto Name Meaning 0234/1 2.05+ relocatable_kernel Whether kernel is relocatable or not 0235/3 N/A pad2 Unused 0238/4 2.06+ cmdline_size Maximum size of the kernel command line +023C/4 2.07+ hardware_subarch Hardware subarchitecture +0240/8 2.07+ hardware_subarch_data Subarchitecture-specific data (1) For backwards compatibility, if the setup_sects field contains 0, the real value is 4. @@ -204,7 +206,7 @@ boot loaders can ignore those fields. The byte order of all fields is littleendian (this is x86, after all.) -Field name: setup_secs +Field name: setup_sects Type: read Offset/size: 0x1f1/1 Protocol: ALL @@ -356,6 +358,13 @@ Protocol: 2.00+ - If 0, the protected-mode code is loaded at 0x10000. - If 1, the protected-mode code is loaded at 0x100000. + Bit 6 (write): KEEP_SEGMENTS + Protocol: 2.07+ + - if 0, reload the segment registers in the 32bit entry point. + - if 1, do not reload the segment registers in the 32bit entry point. + Assume that %cs %ds %ss %es are all set to flat segments with + a base of 0 (or the equivalent for their environment). + Bit 7 (write): CAN_USE_HEAP Set this bit to 1 to indicate that the value entered in the heap_end_ptr is valid. If this field is clear, some setup code @@ -480,6 +489,29 @@ Protocol: 2.06+ cmdline_size characters. With protocol version 2.05 and earlier, the maximum size was 255. +Field name: hardware_subarch +Type: write +Offset/size: 0x23c/4 +Protocol: 2.07+ + + In a paravirtualized environment the hardware low level architectural + pieces such as interrupt handling, page table handling, and + accessing process control registers needs to be done differently. + + This field allows the bootloader to inform the kernel we are in one + one of those environments. + + 0x00000000 The default x86/PC environment + 0x00000001 lguest + 0x00000002 Xen + +Field name: hardware_subarch_data +Type: write +Offset/size: 0x240/8 +Protocol: 2.07+ + + A pointer to data that is specific to hardware subarch + **** THE KERNEL COMMAND LINE diff -puN arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets_32.c~update-boot-spec-to-207 arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets_32.c --- a/arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets_32.c~update-boot-spec-to-207 +++ a/arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets_32.c @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ #include <asm/fixmap.h> #include <asm/processor.h> #include <asm/thread_info.h> +#include <asm/bootparam.h> #include <asm/elf.h> #include <xen/interface/xen.h> @@ -146,4 +147,10 @@ void foo(void) OFFSET(LGUEST_PAGES_regs_errcode, lguest_pages, regs.errcode); OFFSET(LGUEST_PAGES_regs, lguest_pages, regs); #endif + + BLANK(); + OFFSET(BP_scratch, boot_params, scratch); + OFFSET(BP_loadflags, boot_params, hdr.loadflags); + OFFSET(BP_hardware_subarch, boot_params, hdr.hardware_subarch); + OFFSET(BP_version, boot_params, hdr.version); } diff -puN include/asm-x86/bootparam.h~update-boot-spec-to-207 include/asm-x86/bootparam.h --- a/include/asm-x86/bootparam.h~update-boot-spec-to-207 +++ a/include/asm-x86/bootparam.h @@ -28,8 +28,9 @@ struct setup_header { u16 kernel_version; u8 type_of_loader; u8 loadflags; -#define LOADED_HIGH 0x01 -#define CAN_USE_HEAP 0x80 +#define LOADED_HIGH (1<<0) +#define KEEP_SEGMENTS (1<<6) +#define CAN_USE_HEAP (1<<7) u16 setup_move_size; u32 code32_start; u32 ramdisk_image; @@ -41,6 +42,10 @@ struct setup_header { u32 initrd_addr_max; u32 kernel_alignment; u8 relocatable_kernel; + u8 _pad2[3]; + u32 cmdline_size; + u32 hardware_subarch; + u64 hardware_subarch_data; } __attribute__((packed)); struct sys_desc_table { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch git-kvm.patch reiser4.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html