linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 11/12] x86, boot: add fields to support load bzImage and ramdisk high

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Date:	Sat, 24 Nov 2012 16:11:30 -0800
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>,
	Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 11/12] x86, boot: add fields to support load bzImage
 and ramdisk high

On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 4:04 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
>
> It sounds like we are leaning toward some form of the sentinel hack, which
> means we need an enumerated list of things that should *not* be zeroed if
> the sentinel is present.
>
> The option of declaring the list frozen makes me a bit nervous, because it
> isn't clear that we don't already have fields that will be misinterpreted by
> the kernel if filled in from the file.

USE_EXT_BOOT_PARAMS bit in xloadflags should work.

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