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[PATCH] i386: extend bzImage protocol for relocatable protected mode kernel
authorVivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Thu, 7 Dec 2006 01:14:04 +0000 (02:14 +0100)
committerAndi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org>
Thu, 7 Dec 2006 01:14:04 +0000 (02:14 +0100)
commitbe274eeaf20b4c7155242645d5e2c48b023e609b
tree2c56b03d80ad1e9e376b286ddfa28fffe0606901
parente69f202d0a1419219198566e1c22218a5c71a9a6
[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 <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Documentation/i386/boot.txt
arch/i386/boot/setup.S