Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > The boot protocol change is in 2.6.21 for arch/i386. > > HPA looked at it a while ago. > > All it does is set a flag that tells a bootloader. > "Hey. I can run when loaded a non-default address, and this is what > you have to align me to." > > All relocation processing happens in the kernel itself. > > So it is all pretty trivial. > Indeed. We *did* find some problems with Grub with the early versions, those were addressed. -hpa - 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/
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