Hi, Peter, On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 09:04 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Huang, Ying wrote: > > > > Known Issues: > > > > 1. Where is safe to place the linked list of setup_data? > > Because the length of the linked list of setup_data is variable, it > > can not be copied into BSS segment of kernel as that of "zero > > page". We must find a safe place for it, where it will not be > > overwritten by kernel during booting up. The i386 kernel will > > overwrite some pages after _end. The x86_64 kernel will overwrite some > > pages from 0x1000 on. > > > > The latter is definitely not safe, since the space below 640K is the > documented place to put the command line (and presumably where the > bootloader would put other auxilliary chunks.) > > I'll try to do a full review of this later today. Haven't had time yet > to look at this anything than but piecemeal.
Do you think this patch and the 32-bit boot protocol patch are ready to merge for -mm? If not, I can revise them. 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/