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authorJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>2018-11-20 08:25:28 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2018-11-20 09:43:10 +0100
commit3841840449817ba6cf3e636008bc4e1061a03388 (patch)
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parentx86/ptrace: Fix documentation for tracehook_report_syscall_entry() (diff)
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x86/boot: Mostly revert commit ae7e1238e68f2a ("Add ACPI RSDP address to setup_header")
Peter Anvin pointed out that commit: ae7e1238e68f2a ("x86/boot: Add ACPI RSDP address to setup_header") should be reverted as setup_header should only contain items set by the legacy BIOS. So revert said commit. Instead of fully reverting the dependent commit of: e7b66d16fe4172 ("x86/acpi, x86/boot: Take RSDP address for boot params if available") just remove the setup_header reference in order to replace it by a boot_params in a followup patch. Suggested-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com Cc: bp@alien8.de Cc: daniel.kiper@oracle.com Cc: sstabellini@kernel.org Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181120072529.5489-2-jgross@suse.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/x86/boot.txt32
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 31 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/boot.txt b/Documentation/x86/boot.txt
index 7727db8f94bc..5e9b826b5f62 100644
--- a/Documentation/x86/boot.txt
+++ b/Documentation/x86/boot.txt
@@ -61,18 +61,6 @@ Protocol 2.12: (Kernel 3.8) Added the xloadflags field and extension fields
to struct boot_params for loading bzImage and ramdisk
above 4G in 64bit.
-Protocol 2.13: (Kernel 3.14) Support 32- and 64-bit flags being set in
- xloadflags to support booting a 64-bit kernel from 32-bit
- EFI
-
-Protocol 2.14: (Kernel 4.20) Added acpi_rsdp_addr holding the physical
- address of the ACPI RSDP table.
- The bootloader updates version with:
- 0x8000 | min(kernel-version, bootloader-version)
- kernel-version being the protocol version supported by
- the kernel and bootloader-version the protocol version
- supported by the bootloader.
-
**** MEMORY LAYOUT
The traditional memory map for the kernel loader, used for Image or
@@ -209,7 +197,6 @@ Offset Proto Name Meaning
0258/8 2.10+ pref_address Preferred loading address
0260/4 2.10+ init_size Linear memory required during initialization
0264/4 2.11+ handover_offset Offset of handover entry point
-0268/8 2.14+ acpi_rsdp_addr Physical address of RSDP table
(1) For backwards compatibility, if the setup_sects field contains 0, the
real value is 4.
@@ -322,7 +309,7 @@ Protocol: 2.00+
Contains the magic number "HdrS" (0x53726448).
Field name: version
-Type: modify
+Type: read
Offset/size: 0x206/2
Protocol: 2.00+
@@ -330,12 +317,6 @@ Protocol: 2.00+
e.g. 0x0204 for version 2.04, and 0x0a11 for a hypothetical version
10.17.
- Up to protocol version 2.13 this information is only read by the
- bootloader. From protocol version 2.14 onwards the bootloader will
- write the used protocol version or-ed with 0x8000 to the field. The
- used protocol version will be the minimum of the supported protocol
- versions of the bootloader and the kernel.
-
Field name: realmode_swtch
Type: modify (optional)
Offset/size: 0x208/4
@@ -763,17 +744,6 @@ Offset/size: 0x264/4
See EFI HANDOVER PROTOCOL below for more details.
-Field name: acpi_rsdp_addr
-Type: write
-Offset/size: 0x268/8
-Protocol: 2.14+
-
- This field can be set by the boot loader to tell the kernel the
- physical address of the ACPI RSDP table.
-
- A value of 0 indicates the kernel should fall back to the standard
- methods to locate the RSDP.
-
**** THE IMAGE CHECKSUM