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Message-ID: <471E729F.3000105@zytor.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:15:59 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
CC: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v7 1/3] x86 boot: setup data
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>> 1:
>> + movl boot_params - __PAGE_OFFSET + SETUP_DATA_POINTER,%ebp
>
> You need to check the boot protocol version before looking at this pointer.
>
No, he doesn't. The boot protocol version is communication between the
boot loader and the kernel (specifically, it is communication FROM the
kernel TO the bootloader), not between internal bits of the kernel. Th
Since the pointer is safely inside the setup template, even if the
bootloader doesn't understand boot protocol version 2.08 it will have
copied it.
So this is fine.
-hpa
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