On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 3:20 AM, Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> wrote: >> the boot loader should >> +also fill the additional fields of the struct boot_params as that > > remove "that" > >> +described in zero-page.txt. > > Btw, you could document the sentinel mechanism here or in zero-page.txt, > for example.
that is: --- The memory for struct boot_params could be allocated anywhere (even above 4G) and initialized to all zero. --- bootloader memset zero_page at first means. and all bootloader did that except kexec. and it is fixed patches for kexec-tools. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

