Re: [patches] [PATCH] [21/22] x86_64: Extend bzImage protocol for relocatable bzImage

On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 21:00 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Rusty Russell wrote:
> >> It'd be nicer if there were a "struct boot_params" declaration, but we
> >> can't have everything.
> > 
> > It's in my patchset-under-development.
> > 
> > (Preview snapshot:
> > http://userweb.kernel.org/~hpa/setup-snapshot-2007.04.30.patch)
> 
> Just pushed out a git tree:
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/hpa/linux-2.6-newsetup.git;a=summary

Any chance of splitting off a "struct boot_params" header (includable by
non-kernel code) for inclusion immediately?  The rest can wait until
2.6.23, but it'd be sweet to get this in place sooner.

BTW, wrt. a new "platform type" field, should it go something like this?

-0235/3	N/A	pad2		Unused
+0235/1	2.07+	platform_type	Runtime platform (see below)
+0236/2	N/A	pad2		Unused
...
+  platform_type:
+	For kernels which can boot on multiple platforms.  Currently
+	0 == native (normal), 1 == lguest (paravirtualized).

Thanks,
Rusty.


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