linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 18/27] x86, boot: add fields to support load bzImage and ramdisk above 4G

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Date:	Thu, 13 Dec 2012 15:28:44 -0800
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>,
	Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 18/27] x86, boot: add fields to support load bzImage
 and ramdisk above 4G

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 2:54 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
>
> 0x1f0 is unsuitable for use as sentinel -- or in fact for any purpose --
> because it is quite plausible that someone may (fairly sanely) start the
> copy range at 0x1f0 instead of 0x1f1... we really should have documented
> it that way but it is too late now.
>
> However, we can use 0x1ef.

right. updated to use 0x1ef.

Thanks

Yinghai

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