1. 29 2月, 2012 1 次提交
  2. 13 12月, 2011 1 次提交
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      x86, efi: EFI boot stub support · 291f3632
      Matt Fleming 提交于
      There is currently a large divide between kernel development and the
      development of EFI boot loaders. The idea behind this patch is to give
      the kernel developers full control over the EFI boot process. As
      H. Peter Anvin put it,
      
      "The 'kernel carries its own stub' approach been very successful in
      dealing with BIOS, and would make a lot of sense to me for EFI as
      well."
      
      This patch introduces an EFI boot stub that allows an x86 bzImage to
      be loaded and executed by EFI firmware. The bzImage appears to the
      firmware as an EFI application. Luckily there are enough free bits
      within the bzImage header so that it can masquerade as an EFI
      application, thereby coercing the EFI firmware into loading it and
      jumping to its entry point. The beauty of this masquerading approach
      is that both BIOS and EFI boot loaders can still load and run the same
      bzImage, thereby allowing a single kernel image to work in any boot
      environment.
      
      The EFI boot stub supports multiple initrds, but they must exist on
      the same partition as the bzImage. Command-line arguments for the
      kernel can be appended after the bzImage name when run from the EFI
      shell, e.g.
      
      Shell> bzImage console=ttyS0 root=/dev/sdb initrd=initrd.img
      
      v7:
       - Fix checkpatch warnings.
      
      v6:
      
       - Try to allocate initrd memory just below hdr->inird_addr_max.
      
      v5:
      
       - load_options_size is UTF-16, which needs dividing by 2 to convert
         to the corresponding ASCII size.
      
      v4:
      
       - Don't read more than image->load_options_size
      
      v3:
      
       - Fix following warnings when compiling CONFIG_EFI_STUB=n
      
         arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c: In function ‘main’:
         arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c:138:24: warning: unused variable ‘pe_header’
         arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c:138:15: warning: unused variable ‘file_sz’
      
       - As reported by Matthew Garrett, some Apple machines have GOPs that
         don't have hardware attached. We need to weed these out by
         searching for ones that handle the PCIIO protocol.
      
       - Don't allocate memory if no initrds are on cmdline
       - Don't trust image->load_options_size
      
      Maarten Lankhorst noted:
       - Don't strip first argument when booted from efibootmgr
       - Don't allocate too much memory for cmdline
       - Don't update cmdline_size, the kernel considers it read-only
       - Don't accept '\n' for initrd names
      
      v2:
      
       - File alignment was too large, was 8192 should be 512. Reported by
         Maarten Lankhorst on LKML.
       - Added UGA support for graphics
       - Use VIDEO_TYPE_EFI instead of hard-coded number.
       - Move linelength assignment until after we've assigned depth
       - Dynamically fill out AddressOfEntryPoint in tools/build.c
       - Don't use magic number for GDT/TSS stuff. Requested by Andi Kleen
       - The bzImage may need to be relocated as it may have been loaded at
         a high address address by the firmware. This was required to get my
         macbook booting because the firmware loaded it at 0x7cxxxxxx, which
         triggers this error in decompress_kernel(),
      
      	if (heap > ((-__PAGE_OFFSET-(128<<20)-1) & 0x7fffffff))
      		error("Destination address too large");
      
      Cc: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
      Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
      Tested-by: NHenrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
      Signed-off-by: NMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1321383097.2657.9.camel@mfleming-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.comSigned-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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  3. 26 5月, 2011 1 次提交
  4. 12 3月, 2009 1 次提交
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      x86: remove zImage support · 5e47c478
      H. Peter Anvin 提交于
      Impact: obsolete feature removal
      
      The zImage kernel format has been functionally unused for a very long
      time.  It is just barely possible to build a modern kernel that still
      fits within the zImage size limit, but it is highly unlikely that
      anyone ever uses it.  Furthermore, although it is still supported by
      most bootloaders, it has been at best poorly tested (or not tested at
      all); some bootloaders are even known to not support zImage at all and
      not having even noticed.
      
      Also remove some really obsolete constants that no longer have any
      meaning.
      
      LKML-Reference: <49B703D4.1000008@zytor.com>
      Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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  5. 17 4月, 2008 1 次提交
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  11. 26 6月, 2005 1 次提交
  12. 17 4月, 2005 1 次提交
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      Linux-2.6.12-rc2 · 1da177e4
      Linus Torvalds 提交于
      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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