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| author | Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com> | 2019-11-12 14:46:39 +0100 |
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| committer | Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> | 2019-11-12 16:16:54 +0100 |
| commit | 00cd1c154d565c62ad5e065bf3530f68bdf59490 (patch) | |
| tree | 110d37ffd112b0c703103716dad76bdbe5c48dac /Documentation/x86 | |
| parent | 2c33c27fd6033ced942c9a591b8ac15c07c57d70 (diff) | |
x86/boot: Introduce kernel_info.setup_type_max
This field contains maximal allowed type for setup_data.
Do not bump setup_header version in arch/x86/boot/header.S because it
will be followed by additional changes coming into the Linux/x86 boot
protocol.
Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Ross Philipson <ross.philipson@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com
Cc: eric.snowberg@oracle.com
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: kanth.ghatraju@oracle.com
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-efi <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: rdunlap@infradead.org
Cc: ross.philipson@oracle.com
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191112134640.16035-3-daniel.kiper@oracle.com
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/x86')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/boot.rst | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/boot.rst b/Documentation/x86/boot.rst index c60fafda9427..6cdd767c3835 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/boot.rst +++ b/Documentation/x86/boot.rst @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ Protocol 2.14: BURNT BY INCORRECT COMMIT ae7e1238e68f2a472a125673ab506d49158c188 (x86/boot: Add ACPI RSDP address to setup_header) DO NOT USE!!! ASSUME SAME AS 2.13. -Protocol 2.15: (Kernel 5.5) Added the kernel_info. +Protocol 2.15: (Kernel 5.5) Added the kernel_info and kernel_info.setup_type_max. ============= ============================================================ .. note:: @@ -981,6 +981,13 @@ Offset/size: 0x0008/4 This field contains the size of the kernel_info including kernel_info.header and kernel_info.kernel_info_var_len_data. +============ ============== +Field name: setup_type_max +Offset/size: 0x000c/4 +============ ============== + + This field contains maximal allowed type for setup_data. + The Image Checksum ================== |