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x86, boot: Document for linked list of struct setup_data

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Documentation for linked list of struct setup_data.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Huang, Ying 2008-03-28 10:49:50 +08:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
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@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ Protocol 2.05: (Kernel 2.6.20) Make protected mode kernel relocatable.
Protocol 2.06: (Kernel 2.6.22) Added a field that contains the size of
the boot command line
Protocol 2.09: (kernel 2.6.26) Added a field of 64-bit physical
pointer to single linked list of struct setup_data.
**** MEMORY LAYOUT
@ -172,6 +174,8 @@ Offset Proto Name Meaning
0240/8 2.07+ hardware_subarch_data Subarchitecture-specific data
0248/4 2.08+ payload_offset Offset of kernel payload
024C/4 2.08+ payload_length Length of kernel payload
0250/8 2.09+ setup_data 64-bit physical pointer to linked list
of struct setup_data
(1) For backwards compatibility, if the setup_sects field contains 0, the
real value is 4.
@ -572,6 +576,28 @@ command line is entered using the following protocol:
covered by setup_move_size, so you may need to adjust this
field.
Field name: setup_data
Type: write (obligatory)
Offset/size: 0x250/8
Protocol: 2.09+
The 64-bit physical pointer to NULL terminated single linked list of
struct setup_data. This is used to define a more extensible boot
parameters passing mechanism. The definition of struct setup_data is
as follow:
struct setup_data {
u64 next;
u32 type;
u32 len;
u8 data[0];
};
Where, the next is a 64-bit physical pointer to the next node of
linked list, the next field of the last node is 0; the type is used
to identify the contents of data; the len is the length of data
field; the data holds the real payload.
**** MEMORY LAYOUT OF THE REAL-MODE CODE