"H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
We found some failures that weren't root caused so we went to this more conservative version. RHEL5 is actually shipping the original version of these patches if I recall correctly. Eric - 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/
