Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2

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!

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+Summary of boot_params layout (kernel point of view)
+     ( collected by Hans Lermen and Martin Mares )
+ 
+The contents of boot_params are used to pass parameters from the
+16-bit realmode code of the kernel to the 32-bit part. References/settings
+to it mainly are in:
+
+  arch/i386/boot/setup.S
+  arch/i386/boot/video.S
+  arch/i386/kernel/head.S
+  arch/i386/kernel/setup.c
+ 
+
+Offset	Type		Description
+------  ----		-----------
+    0	32 bytes	struct screen_info, SCREEN_INFO
+			ATTENTION, overlaps the following !!!
+    2	unsigned short	EXT_MEM_K, extended memory size in Kb (from int 0x15)
+ 0x20	unsigned short	CL_MAGIC, commandline magic number (=0xA33F)
+ 0x22	unsigned short	CL_OFFSET, commandline offset
+			Address of commandline is calculated:
+			  0x90000 + contents of CL_OFFSET
+			(only taken, when CL_MAGIC = 0xA33F)
+ 0x40	20 bytes	struct apm_bios_info, APM_BIOS_INFO
+ 0x60	16 bytes	Intel SpeedStep (IST) BIOS support information
+ 0x80	16 bytes	hd0-disk-parameter from intvector 0x41
+ 0x90	16 bytes	hd1-disk-parameter from intvector 0x46
+
+ 0xa0	16 bytes	System description table truncated to 16 bytes.
+			( struct sys_desc_table_struct )
+ 0xb0 - 0x13f		Free. Add more parameters here if you really need them.
+ 0x140- 0x1be		EDID_INFO Video mode setup
+
+0x1c4	unsigned long	EFI system table pointer
+0x1c8	unsigned long	EFI memory descriptor size
+0x1cc	unsigned long	EFI memory descriptor version
+0x1d0	unsigned long	EFI memory descriptor map pointer
+0x1d4	unsigned long	EFI memory descriptor map size
+0x1e0	unsigned long	ALT_MEM_K, alternative mem check, in Kb
+0x1e8	char		number of entries in E820MAP (below)
+0x1e9	unsigned char	number of entries in EDDBUF (below)
+0x1ea	unsigned char	number of entries in EDD_MBR_SIG_BUFFER (below)
+0x1f1	char		size of setup.S, number of sectors
+0x1f2	unsigned short	MOUNT_ROOT_RDONLY (if !=0)
+0x1f4	unsigned short	size of compressed kernel-part in the
+			(b)zImage-file (in 16 byte units, rounded up)
+0x1f6	unsigned short	swap_dev (unused AFAIK)
+0x1f8	unsigned short	RAMDISK_FLAGS
+0x1fa	unsigned short	VGA-Mode (old one)
+0x1fc	unsigned short	ORIG_ROOT_DEV (high=Major, low=minor)
+0x1ff	char		AUX_DEVICE_INFO
+
+0x200	short jump to start of setup code aka "reserved" field.
+0x202	4 bytes		Signature for SETUP-header, ="HdrS"
+0x206	unsigned short	Version number of header format
+			Current version is 0x0201...
+0x208	8 bytes		(used by setup.S for communication with boot loaders,
+			 look there)
+0x210	char		LOADER_TYPE, = 0, old one
+			else it is set by the loader:
+			0xTV: T=0 for LILO
+				1 for Loadlin
+				2 for bootsect-loader
+				3 for SYSLINUX
+				4 for ETHERBOOT
+				V = version
+0x211	char		loadflags:
+			bit0 = 1: kernel is loaded high (bzImage)
+			bit7 = 1: Heap and pointer (see below) set by boot
+				  loader.
+0x212	unsigned short	(setup.S)
+0x214	unsigned long	KERNEL_START, where the loader started the kernel
+0x218	unsigned long	INITRD_START, address of loaded ramdisk image
+0x21c	unsigned long	INITRD_SIZE, size in bytes of ramdisk image
+0x220	4 bytes		(setup.S)
+0x224	unsigned short	setup.S heap end pointer
+0x226   unsigned short	zero_pad
+0x228   unsigned long	cmd_line_ptr
+0x22c   unsigned long	ramdisk_max
+0x230   16 bytes 	trampoline
+0x290 - 0x2cf		EDD_MBR_SIG_BUFFER (edd.S)
+0x2d0 - 0x600		E820MAP
+0x600 - 0x7ff		EDDBUF (edd.S) for disk signature read sector
+0x600 - 0x7eb		EDDBUF (edd.S) for edd data