linux-kernel - Re: Revert commit 5dcd14ecd4 - breaks EFI boot with SLES11 elilo.efi

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Date:	Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:02:25 -0800
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Robin Holt <holt@....com>, hpa@....com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Revert commit 5dcd14ecd4 - breaks EFI boot with SLES11 elilo.efi

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:12 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
> On 02/28/2013 01:09 PM, Robin Holt wrote:
>>>
>>> Sounds like ELILO needs to be fixed to pass the boot_params correctly.
>>>
>>> To support existing ELILO, it would be good to know exactly *which*
>>> fields ELILO pass in as garbage (because it does, that is why ->sentinel
>>> is nonzero) and use its bootloader ID to apply the proper brainwhack for
>>> the legacy versions.
>>
>> Any idea how I can dump that information?
>>
>
> Look at the source code and look at what fields it actually initializes.
>  Give us that list, and then we can work around elilo braindamage in the
> kernel.
>
> Then make it follow the boot spec:
>
>> In 32-bit boot protocol, the first step in loading a Linux kernel
>> should be to setup the boot parameters (struct boot_params,
>> traditionally known as "zero page"). The memory for struct boot_params
>> should be allocated and initialized to all zero. Then the setup header
>> from offset 0x01f1 of kernel image on should be loaded into struct
>> boot_params and examined. The end of setup header can be calculated as
>> follow:
>>
>>         0x0202 + byte value at offset 0x0201
>
> ... so we don't have to.

Good, kexec is not only one.

ELILO has one.
        5  ELILO

We need switch/case to have different fields set for it.

Thanks

Yinghai
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