On Wednesday 08 August 2007 17:11:54 huang ying wrote: > On 8/8/07, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Instead, elilo collects the needed information > > > defined in include/asm-x86_64/bootsetup.h itself, > > > > That's nasty. I must have missed when we declared this a public ABI. > > It's not really designed to be one. Was there public discussion on this? > > Maybe What I said is not clear and correct. In fact, the elilo follows > the boot protocol defined in Documentation/i386/zero-page.txt,
No that's not the boot protocol. The boot protocol is in Documentation/i386/boot.txt > just > not uses arch/(i386|x86_64)/boot/setup.S to collect the information, > but collects them by elilo itself. Information in > include/asm-x86_64/bootsetup.h is just a part of that in > Documentation/i386/zero-page.txt. That's an internal interface that is not really suitable to use by other programs. e.g. it is not extensible (unlike the boot protocol) -Andi - 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/
