linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7u1 00/31] x86, boot, 64bit: Add support for loading ramdisk and bzImage above 4G

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Date:	Mon, 14 Jan 2013 23:39:50 +0000
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@....de>,
	Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7u1 00/31] x86, boot, 64bit: Add support for loading
 ramdisk and bzImage above 4G

On Mon, 2013-01-14 at 15:16 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> The reason I want to do this this way is that I want to also make
> David Woodhouse's protocol fixes to make the EFI stub work correctly
> at the same time, so we get a single protocol level bump. 

My changes don't need a protocol level bump. It's just two new bits in
load_flags that old loaders won't care about.

-- 
dwmw2


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