From 9ee670fd87b7d69c8633b94c42aadcbbcb96f28e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: KOSAKI Motohiro Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:49:01 +0900 Subject: x86/doc: spelling fix for grub Impact: documentation fix I met okuji-san (GRUB maintainer) yesterday. He said GRuB isn't correct spelled and he want to fix it. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Documentation/x86/boot.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation/x86/boot.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/x86/boot.txt b/Documentation/x86/boot.txt index 83c0033ee9e0..804d9b1a46ef 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/boot.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/boot.txt @@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ Protocol: 2.00+ 3 SYSLINUX 4 EtherBoot 5 ELILO - 7 GRuB + 7 GRUB 8 U-BOOT 9 Xen A Gujin -- cgit v1.2.3 From e1286f2c686f5976e0424bb6195ece25e7a17607 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Philipp Kohlbecher Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:50:01 +0100 Subject: x86: documentation fix regarding boot protocol Impact: clarify documentation Documentation/x86/boot.txt describes payload_offset as the offset from the end of the real-mode code. In fact, it is more accurately described as the offset from the beginning of the protected-mode code, as (a) this is how it is actually calculated and (b) the padding after the real-mode code is not included in the offset. Signed-off-by: Philipp Kohlbecher Acked-by: Ian Campbell Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Documentation/x86/boot.txt | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/x86/boot.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/x86/boot.txt b/Documentation/x86/boot.txt index 804d9b1a46ef..fcdc62b3c3d8 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/boot.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/boot.txt @@ -537,8 +537,8 @@ 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 payload. + If non-zero then this field contains the offset from the beginning + of the protected-mode code to the payload. The payload may be compressed. The format of both the compressed and uncompressed data should be determined using the standard magic -- cgit v1.2.3