[PATCH -mm -v2 1/2] i386/x86_64 boot: setup data

2007-09-18 Thread Huang, Ying
This patch add a field of 64-bit physical pointer to NULL terminated single linked list of struct setup_data to real-mode kernel header. This is used as a more extensible boot parameters passing mechanism. This patch has been tested against 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 kernel on x86_64. It is based on the

[PATCH -mm -v2 1/2] i386/x86_64 boot: setup data

2007-09-18 Thread Huang, Ying
This patch add a field of 64-bit physical pointer to NULL terminated single linked list of struct setup_data to real-mode kernel header. This is used as a more extensible boot parameters passing mechanism. This patch has been tested against 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 kernel on x86_64. It is based on the