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From: rae l <crquan@...>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@...>
Cc: lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...>, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...>, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...>, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...>, lguest <lguest@...>, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] update boot spec to 2.07
Date: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 - 2:38 am

On 10/3/07, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
...
Sugguestion is you also add an entry to the header of the file
(Documentation/i386/boot.txt):

something like this:

diff --git a/Documentation/i386/boot.txt b/Documentation/i386/boot.txt
index fc49b79..645bbd7 100644
--- a/Documentation/i386/boot.txt
+++ b/Documentation/i386/boot.txt
@@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ Protocol 2.05:	(Kernel 2.6.20) Make protected mode
kernel relocatable.
 Protocol 2.06:	(Kernel 2.6.22) Added a field that contains the size of
 		the boot command line

+Protocol 2.07:	(Kernel 2.6.23) Added two fields hardware_subarch and
+		hardware_subarch_data to describe the paravirtualized
+		environment.

 **** MEMORY LAYOUT

-- 
Denis Cheng
Linux Application Developer

"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
 - Ken Thompson.
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[PATCH 0/5] Boot protocol changes, Rusty Russell, (Tue Oct 2, 7:34 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/5] Boot protocol changes, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Tue Oct 2, 7:46 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/5] Boot protocol changes, H. Peter Anvin, (Tue Oct 2, 7:53 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/5] Boot protocol changes, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Tue Oct 2, 7:56 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/5] Boot protocol changes, H. Peter Anvin, (Tue Oct 2, 8:43 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/5] Boot protocol changes, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Tue Oct 2, 8:58 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/5] Boot protocol changes, H. Peter Anvin, (Tue Oct 2, 9:03 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/5] Boot protocol changes, H. Peter Anvin, (Tue Oct 2, 8:46 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/5] Boot protocol changes, H. Peter Anvin, (Tue Oct 2, 7:44 pm)
[PATCH 1/5] update boot spec to 2.07, Rusty Russell, (Tue Oct 2, 7:35 pm)
Re: [PATCH 1/5] update boot spec to 2.07, rae l, (Tue Oct 30, 2:38 am)
[PATCH 2/5] add WEAK() for creating weak asm labels, Rusty Russell, (Tue Oct 2, 7:35 pm)
[PATCH 3/5] i386: paravirt boot sequence, Rusty Russell, (Tue Oct 2, 7:36 pm)
[PATCH 4/5] Revert lguest magic and use hook in head.S, Rusty Russell, (Tue Oct 2, 7:39 pm)
[PATCH 5/5] lguest: loading bzImage directly, Rusty Russell, (Tue Oct 2, 7:40 pm)
Re: [PATCH 5/5] lguest: loading bzImage directly, Chris Malley, (Wed Oct 3, 5:37 am)
Re: [PATCH 5/5] lguest: loading bzImage directly, Rusty Russell, (Wed Oct 3, 8:02 pm)
Re: [PATCH 5/5] lguest: loading bzImage directly, Kjartan Maraas, (Sat Nov 24, 5:54 pm)
Re: [PATCH 5/5] lguest: loading bzImage directly, H. Peter Anvin, (Sat Nov 24, 6:14 pm)
Re: [PATCH 5/5] lguest: loading bzImage directly, Kjartan Maraas, (Sun Nov 25, 8:32 am)
Re: [PATCH 5/5] lguest: loading bzImage directly, H. Peter Anvin, (Wed Oct 3, 8:26 pm)
Re: [PATCH 5/5] lguest: loading bzImage directly, H. Peter Anvin, (Wed Oct 3, 1:12 pm)