Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 May 2007 15:42:19 +0530 | From | Vivek Goyal <> | Subject | Re: Proposed update of the i386 boot document |
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On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 06:11:14PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > I have noticed that a few items in the i386 boot document have become a > bit incoherent and/or dated over the years. Attached is an attempt at > rewriting a few of the sections; the main things is a field-by-field > description for the setup header. > > I would appreciate comments as to if this makes it easier to follow or not. >
Overall looks good to me. Especially for relocatable kernel, to a boot loader now it is more clear what is the meaning of different fields and need to modify code32_start if protected mode kernel was loaded at non 1MB address.
Thanks Vivek
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