From be274eeaf20b4c7155242645d5e2c48b023e609b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vivek Goyal Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 02:14:04 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] i386: extend bzImage protocol for relocatable protected mode kernel Extend bzImage protocol to enable bootloaders to load a completely relocatable bzImage. Now protected mode component of kernel is also relocatable and a boot-loader can load the protected mode component at a differnt physical address than 1MB. (If kernel was built with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE) Kexec can make use of it to load this kernel at a different physical address to capture kernel crash dumps. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Cc: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- arch/i386/boot/setup.S | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/i386/boot/setup.S') diff --git a/arch/i386/boot/setup.S b/arch/i386/boot/setup.S index 9aa8b0518184..06edf1c66242 100644 --- a/arch/i386/boot/setup.S +++ b/arch/i386/boot/setup.S @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ start: # This is the setup header, and it must start at %cs:2 (old 0x9020:2) .ascii "HdrS" # header signature - .word 0x0204 # header version number (>= 0x0105) + .word 0x0205 # header version number (>= 0x0105) # or else old loadlin-1.5 will fail) realmode_swtch: .word 0, 0 # default_switch, SETUPSEG start_sys_seg: .word SYSSEG @@ -160,6 +160,17 @@ ramdisk_max: .long (-__PAGE_OFFSET-(512 << 20)-1) & 0x7fffffff # The highest safe address for # the contents of an initrd +kernel_alignment: .long CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN #physical addr alignment + #required for protected mode + #kernel +#ifdef CONFIG_RELOCATABLE +relocatable_kernel: .byte 1 +#else +relocatable_kernel: .byte 0 +#endif +pad2: .byte 0 +pad3: .word 0 + trampoline: call start_of_setup .align 16 # The offset at this point is 0x240 -- cgit v1.2.1