Re: Proposed update of the i386 boot document

On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 06:11:14PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> I have noticed that a few items in the i386 boot document have become a
> bit incoherent and/or dated over the years.  Attached is an attempt at
> rewriting a few of the sections; the main things is a field-by-field
> description for the setup header.
> 
> I would appreciate comments as to if this makes it easier to follow or not.
> 

Overall looks good to me. Especially for relocatable kernel, to a boot
loader now it is more clear what is the meaning of different fields
and need to modify code32_start if protected mode kernel was loaded
at non 1MB address.

Thanks
Vivek

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