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| author | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> | 2009-05-12 02:56:08 +0400 |
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| committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> | 2009-05-12 04:44:39 +0400 |
| commit | 37ba7ab5e33cebc25c68fffe33e9f21e7c2014e8 (patch) | |
| tree | 006ba60fcd29b8fdee844ee6d90b85104a254d0d /arch/x86/boot/header.S | |
| parent | 99aa45595f45603526513d5e29fc00f8afbf3913 (diff) | |
| download | linux-37ba7ab5e33cebc25c68fffe33e9f21e7c2014e8.tar.xz | |
x86, boot: make kernel_alignment adjustable; new bzImage fields
Make the kernel_alignment field adjustable; this allows us to set it
to a large value (intended to be 16 MB to avoid ZONE_DMA contention,
memory holes and other weirdness) while a smart bootloader can still
force a loading at a lesser alignment if absolutely necessary.
Also export pref_address (preferred loading address, corresponding to
the link-time address) and init_size, the total amount of linear
memory the kernel will require during initialization.
[ Impact: allows better kernel placement, gives bootloader more info ]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/boot/header.S')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/boot/header.S | 15 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/header.S b/arch/x86/boot/header.S index 27285143adeb..a0b426978d55 100644 --- a/arch/x86/boot/header.S +++ b/arch/x86/boot/header.S @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ _start: # Part 2 of the header, from the old setup.S .ascii "HdrS" # header signature - .word 0x0209 # header version number (>= 0x0105) + .word 0x020a # header version number (>= 0x0105) # or else old loadlin-1.5 will fail) .globl realmode_swtch realmode_swtch: .word 0, 0 # default_switch, SETUPSEG @@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ relocatable_kernel: .byte 1 #else relocatable_kernel: .byte 0 #endif -pad2: .byte 0 +min_alignment: .byte MIN_KERNEL_ALIGN_LG2 # minimum alignment pad3: .word 0 cmdline_size: .long COMMAND_LINE_SIZE-1 #length of the command line, @@ -220,6 +220,17 @@ setup_data: .quad 0 # 64-bit physical pointer to # single linked list of # struct setup_data +pref_address: .quad LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR # preferred load addr + +#define ZO_INIT_SIZE (ZO__end - ZO_startup_32 + ZO_extract_offset) +#define VO_INIT_SIZE (VO__end - VO__text) +#if ZO_INIT_SIZE > VO_INIT_SIZE +#define INIT_SIZE ZO_INIT_SIZE +#else +#define INIT_SIZE VO_INIT_SIZE +#endif +init_size: .long INIT_SIZE # kernel initialization size + # End of setup header ##################################################### .section ".inittext", "ax" |