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  6. May 09, 2007
    • H. Peter Anvin's avatar
      Documentation/i386/boot.txt: update and correct · de372ecd
      H. Peter Anvin authored
      
      In the process of rewriting the x86 setup code, I found a number of
      inaccuracies and outdated recommendations in the boot protocol
      documentation.  Revamp to make it more up to date.
      
      In particular, the common use of the heap actually requires (slightly)
      more than 4K of heap plus stack, which is the recommended amount in
      the document; currently the code compensates by being smaller than
      specified, but we can't assume that will be true forever.  Thus,
      recommend that if we have a modern bzImage kernel, that the bootloader
      maximizes the available space.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      de372ecd
  7. May 02, 2007
    • Bernhard Walle's avatar
      [PATCH] x86: add command line length to boot protocol · 8f9aeca7
      Bernhard Walle authored
      
      Because the command line is increased to 2048 characters after 2.6.21, it's
      not possible for boot loaders and userspace tools to determine the length
      of the command line the kernel can understand.  The benefit of knowing the
      length is that users can be warned if the command line size is too long
      which prevents surprise if things don't work after bootup.
      
      This patch updates the boot protocol to contain a field called
      "cmdline_size" that contain the length of the command line (excluding the
      terminating zero).
      
      The patch also adds missing fields (of protocol version 2.05) to the x86_64
      setup code.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Cc: Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      8f9aeca7
  8. Jan 26, 2007
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  12. May 01, 2005
    • Venkatesh Pallipadi's avatar
      [PATCH] Increase number of e820 entries hard limit from 32 to 128 · f9ba7053
      Venkatesh Pallipadi authored
      
      The specifications that talk about E820 map doesn't have an upper limit on
      the number of e820 entries.  But, today's kernel has a hard limit of 32.
      With increase in memory size, we are seeing the number of E820 entries
      reaching close to 32.  Patch below bumps the number upto 128.
      
      The patch changes the location of EDDBUF in zero-page (as it comes after E820).
      As, EDDBUF is not used by boot loaders, this patch should not have any effect
      on bootloader-setup code interface.
      
      Patch covers both i386 and x86-64.
      
      Tested on:
      * grub booting bzImage
      * lilo booting bzImage with EDID info enabled
      * pxeboot of bzImage
      
      Side-effect:
      bss increases by ~ 2K and init.data increases by ~7.5K
      on all systems, due to increase in size of static arrays.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      f9ba7053
  13. Apr 16, 2005
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux-2.6.12-rc2 · 1da177e4
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
      even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
      archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
      3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
      git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
      infrastructure for it.
      
      Let it rip!
      1da177e4
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