From 099e1377269a47ed30a00ee131001988e5bcaa9c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Campbell Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:54:58 +0000 Subject: x86: use ELF format in compressed images. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell Cc: Ian Campbell Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- Documentation/i386/boot.txt | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/i386') diff --git a/Documentation/i386/boot.txt b/Documentation/i386/boot.txt index fc49b79bc1a..b5f5ba1ea66 100644 --- a/Documentation/i386/boot.txt +++ b/Documentation/i386/boot.txt @@ -170,6 +170,8 @@ Offset Proto Name Meaning 0238/4 2.06+ cmdline_size Maximum size of the kernel command line 023C/4 2.07+ hardware_subarch Hardware subarchitecture 0240/8 2.07+ hardware_subarch_data Subarchitecture-specific data +0248/4 2.08+ compressed_payload_offset +024C/4 2.08+ compressed_payload_length (1) For backwards compatibility, if the setup_sects field contains 0, the real value is 4. @@ -512,6 +514,22 @@ Protocol: 2.07+ A pointer to data that is specific to hardware subarch +Field name: compressed_payload_offset +Type: read +Offset/size: 0x248/4 +Protocol: 2.08+ + + If non-zero then this field contains the offset from the end of the + real-mode code to the compressed payload. The compression format + should be determined using the standard magic number, currently only + gzip is used. + +Field name: compressed_payload_length +Type: read +Offset/size: 0x24c/4 +Protocol: 2.08+ + + The length of the compressed payload. **** THE KERNEL COMMAND LINE -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258