On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 10:40 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Monday 17 September 2007 10:26:12 Huang, Ying wrote: > > For machine with some new BIOS other than legacy BIOS, such as EFI, > > LinuxBIOS, etc, and kexec, the 16-bit real mode setup code in kernel > > based on legacy BIOS can not be used, so a 32-bit boot protocol need > > to be defined. > > The patch doesn't seem to be what you advertise in the description. > Can you start with a patch that just implements the new boot protocol > parsing for better review? The EFI code should be all in separate > patches. > -Andi
The real contents of 32-bit boot protocol patch is is in another 2 mails with the title: [RFC -mm 1/2] i386/x86_64 boot: setup data [RFC -mm 2/2] i386/x86_64 boot: document for 32 bit boot protocol The EFI patch in this mail is just an example of 32-bit boot protocol usage. Best Regards, Huang Ying - 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/