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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2007-10-22 01:41:35 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-22 17:13:17 +0200
commita24e785111a32ccb7cebafd24b1b1cb474ea8e5d (patch)
tree63ec9334e60f2b4a50521312a5152071fa339911 /arch/x86/boot/header.S
parentadd WEAK() for creating weak asm labels (diff)
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i386: paravirt boot sequence
This patch uses the updated boot protocol to do paravirtualized boot. If the boot version is >= 2.07, then it will do two things: 1. Check the bootparams loadflags to see if we should reload the segment registers and clear interrupts. This is appropriate for normal native boot and some paravirtualized environments, but inapproprate for others. 2. Check the hardware architecture, and dispatch to the appropriate kernel entrypoint. If the bootloader doesn't set this, then we simply do the normal boot sequence. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/boot/header.S')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/boot/header.S7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/header.S b/arch/x86/boot/header.S
index f3140e596d40..8353c81c41c0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/header.S
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/header.S
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ _start:
# Part 2 of the header, from the old setup.S
.ascii "HdrS" # header signature
- .word 0x0206 # header version number (>= 0x0105)
+ .word 0x0207 # header version number (>= 0x0105)
# or else old loadlin-1.5 will fail)
.globl realmode_swtch
realmode_swtch: .word 0, 0 # default_switch, SETUPSEG
@@ -214,6 +214,11 @@ cmdline_size: .long COMMAND_LINE_SIZE-1 #length of the command line,
#added with boot protocol
#version 2.06
+hardware_subarch: .long 0 # subarchitecture, added with 2.07
+ # default to 0 for normal x86 PC
+
+hardware_subarch_data: .quad 0
+
# End of setup header #####################################################
.section ".inittext", "ax"