Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 24 Nov 2012 15:24:54 -0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 11/12] x86, boot: add fields to support load bzImage and ramdisk high | From | Yinghai Lu <> |
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On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 2:32 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote: > On 11/24/2012 02:18 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> Well, that solves the problem for *this specific instance* but I fear > therein lies madness in the general case. >
use
Bit 0 (read): CAN_BE_LOADED_ABOVE_4G - If 1, kernel/boot_params/cmdline/ramdisk can be above 4g, set by kernel.
Bit 1 (write): USE_EXT_BOOT_PARAMS - If 1, set by bootloader, and kernel could check new fields in boot_params that are added from 2.12 safely.
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