In order to work around old LILO versions providing an invalid ss
register, the current setup code always sets up a new stack,
immediately following .bss and the heap. But this breaks LOADLIN.

This rewrite of the workaround checks for an invalid stack (ss!=ds)
first, and leaves ss:sp alone otherwise (apart from aligning esp).

[hpa note: LOADLIN has a number of arbitrary hard-coded limits that
are being pushed up against.  Without some major revision of LOADLIN
itself it will not be sustainable keeping it alive.  This gives it
another brief lease on life, however.  This patch also helps the
cmdline truncation problem with old versions of SYSLINUX.]

Signed-off-by: Jens Rottmann <JRottmann at LiPPERT-AT. de>
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

Apparently some specific versions of LILO enter the kernel with a
stack pointer that doesn't match the rest of the segments.  Make our
best attempt at untangling the resulting mess.
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

This patch uses the updated boot protocol to do paravirtualized boot.
If the boot version is >= 2.07, then it will do two things:

 1. Check the bootparams loadflags to see if we should reload the
    segment registers and clear interrupts.  This is appropriate
    for normal native boot and some paravirtualized environments, but
    inapproprate for others.

 2. Check the hardware architecture, and dispatch to the appropriate
    kernel entrypoint.  If the bootloader doesn't set this, then we
    simply do the normal boot sequence.
Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

There's an obvious typo in arch/i386/boot/header.S (in your
linux-2.6-x86setup.git) that I noticed by just studying the code.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

End the "No setup signature found..." with a newline (the puts
routine will automatically add a carriage return.)
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

Fix comments typos in new x86 boot code.
Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

The assembly header and initialization code, and the main() routine.
main.c also contains some miscellaneous very short routines.
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>