Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> You should be able to just include linux/screen_info.h instead of duplicating
> it inline.
>
I'm working on it!!!!!
> I like the use of struct header in the middle of boot_params that
> seems like a nice maintenance device, although I'm not quite certain about
>
> However you haven't documented the old swap_dev field in struct header.
> At least rdev still knows about it, so it is probably inappropriate to
> merge it with syssize. Not that syssize is actually useful for anything
> in a modern system.
Actually, ROM bootloaders care about it, which is why it was expanded
out in boot loader protocol 2.04; see the documentation.
> So I just looked at what /sbin/kexec does so we know what to expect.
> If I have a bzImage I just grab the first setup_sects (i.e. setup.S) and make
> it the initial linux boot parameters, placing the command line immediately
> afterwards.
>
> If I just have a vmlinux so I have to fake it I memset x86_linux_faked_param_header
> to zero, before placing in the values I care about. And the size. 4K aka 1 page.
> Although I due put the command line at 2K, I think that is actually the historical
> kernel usage of the zero page.
Oh flippin' hell. *STABBITY STAB STAB STAB*.
All of which is just evil. So much for "oh, the definition of the
zeropage never changes, so it doesn't matter."
> elilo does something similar but starts with a 16K pages and then backs up
> 2K for the command line.
>
> Gujin does something similar but also seems to place a command line at 2K.
>
> So short of the first 2K we can reasonably expect new parameters to be zero
> initialized. Past that we need to be a little more careful.
Oh flippin' hell.
> And 4K seems to be our maximum size for backwards compatibility. Although
> we use it in a fairly sparse way, so we should be ok.
Sort of. It's pretty full.
-hpa
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