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
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