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H. Peter Anvin
9a5f35d4ed [x86 setup] edd.c: make sure MBR signatures actually get reported
When filling in the MBR signature array, the setup code failed to advance
boot_params.edd_mbr_sig_buf_entries, which resulted in the valid data
being ignored.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2007-08-14 17:55:31 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
c1a6e2b082 [x86 setup] Don't use EDD to get the MBR signature
At least one machine has been identified in the field which advertises
EDD for all drives but locks up if one attempts an extended read from
a non-primary drive.

The MBR is always at CHS 0-0-1, so there is no reason to use an
extended read, other than the possibility that the BIOS cannot handle
it.

Although this might break as many machines as it fixes (a small number
either way), the current state is a regression but the reverse is not.
Therefore revert to the previous state of not using extended read.

Quite probably the Right Thing to do is to read using plain (CHS) read
and extended read on failure, but that change would definitely have to
go through -mm first.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2007-08-14 17:54:47 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
362cea339a [x86 setup] The current display page is returned in %bh, not %bl
The current display page is an 8-bit number, even though struct
screen_info gives it a 16-bit number.  The number is returned in %bh,
so it needs to be >> 8 before storing.

Special thanks to Jeff Chua for detailed bug reporting.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2007-08-14 14:12:44 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
463c9a9f7d [x86 setup] EDD: add missing =m constraint
Add a missing =m constraint to the EDD-probing code, that could have
caused improper dead-code elimination.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2007-08-02 13:45:49 -04:00
Antonino A. Daplas
59acc08fd9 [x86 setup] video setup: Fix VBE DDC reading
Add memory operand constraint and write-only modifier to the inline
assembly to effect the writing of the EDID block to boot_params.edid_info.

Without this, gcc would think the EDID query was dead code and would
eliminate it.

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2007-08-02 11:08:27 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
8ddf83fed6 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hpa/linux-2.6-x86setup
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hpa/linux-2.6-x86setup:
  [x86 setup] EDD: Fix the computation of the MBR sector buffer
  [x86 setup] Newline after setup signature failure message
  x86 boot code comments typos
2007-07-31 15:51:37 -07:00
Gabriel C
47f82189b1 broken lilo check on make install
On make install I get the this error:

...

sh /work/crazy/linux-git/linux-2.6/arch/i386/boot/install.sh
2.6.22-g4eb6bf6b arch/i386/boot/bzImage System.map "/boot"
/work/crazy/linux-git/linux-2.6/arch/i386/boot/install.sh: line 54:
/etc/lilo/install: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [install] Error 127

...

I don't use and don't have lilo installed on this system. The attached
patch fixes the problem for me.

Signed-off-by: Gabriel Craciunescu <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-31 15:39:42 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
ff659d13ed [x86 setup] EDD: Fix the computation of the MBR sector buffer
Some BIOSes require that sector buffers not cross 64K
boundaries.  As a result, we compute a dynamic address on the
setup heap.  Unfortunately, this address computation was just
totally wrong.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2007-07-31 16:18:05 -04:00
H. Peter Anvin
8b608d2f5a [x86 setup] Newline after setup signature failure message
End the "No setup signature found..." with a newline (the puts
routine will automatically add a carriage return.)

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2007-07-31 16:18:05 -04:00
Randy Dunlap
8218d029c5 x86 boot code comments typos
Fix comments typos in new x86 boot code.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2007-07-31 16:18:05 -04:00
H. Peter Anvin
238b706da1 [x86 setup] Make struct ist_info cross-architecture, and use in setup code
Make "struct ist_info" valid on both i386 and x86-64, and use the
structure by name in the setup code.  Additionally, "Intel SpeedStep
IST" is redundant, refer to it as IST consistently.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2007-07-25 12:02:21 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
1a13286b10 [x86 setup] APM: BX should be zero when disconnecting
For APM calls, BX contains the device index, which is zero for
the system BIOS.  Disconnect requres BX = 0.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2007-07-25 12:02:21 -07:00
Mikael Pettersson
1514ab09ed [x86 setup] APM detection logic bug fix
Starting with kernel 2.6.23-rc1, the i386 APM driver fails
on several of my machines with the message:

apm: BIOS not found

This happens because of a bug in the i386 boot code rewrite
from assembler to C. The original assembly code had the
following code in its APM BIOS presence test (boot/setup.S):

	andw	$0x02, %cx			# Is 32 bit supported?
	je	done_apm_bios			# No 32-bit, no (good) APM BIOS

That is, the code bails out if bit 2 is zero.

In the new C version, this is coded as (boot/apm.c):

	if (cx & 0x02)		/* 32 bits supported? */
		return -1;

Here we see that the test has been accidentally inverted.

The fix is to negate the test. I've verified that this
allows the APM driver to work again on my affected machines.

Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2007-07-25 12:02:21 -07:00
Roland McGrath
d2eea68e7d xen: disable vdso "nosegneg" on native boot
One of the nice ideas behind paravirt is that CONFIG_XEN=y can be included
in a standard configuration and be no worse for native booting than as a
Xen guest.  The glibc feature that supports the vDSO "nosegneg" note is
designed specifically to make this easy.  You just have to flip one bit at
boot time.  This patch makes Xen flip the bit, so a CONFIG_XEN=y kernel on
bare hardware does not make glibc use the less-optimized library builds.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-20 08:44:19 -07:00
Matthew Wilcox
12795067cf Update .gitignore for arch/i386/boot
With the new setup code, we generate a couple more files

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
[ .. and do the same for x86-64 - Alexey ]
Acked-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19 14:32:38 -07:00
Sam Ravnborg
3fbc54165d [PATCH] x86: do not recompile boot for each build
Keep the arch/i386/boot directory from being rebuilt every time.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2007-07-18 11:36:17 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
8c027ae2dc [x86 setup] Save/restore DS around invocations of INT 10h
There exists at least one card, Trident TVGA8900CL (BIOS dated 1992/9/8)
which clobbers DS when "scrolling in an SVGA text mode of more than
800x600 pixels."  Although we are extremely unlikely to run into that
situation, it is cheap insurance to save and restore DS, and it only adds
a grand total of 50 bytes to the total output.

Pointed out by Etienne Lorrain.

Cc: Etienne Lorrain <etienne_lorrain@yahoo.fr>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2007-07-18 11:36:17 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
7ad37df02c [x86 setup] VGA: Clear the Protect bit before setting the vertical height
If the user has asked for the vertical height registers to be recomputed
by setting bit 15 in the video mode number, we do so without clearing the
Protect bit in the Vertical Retrace Register before setting the Overflow
register.  As a result, if the VGA BIOS had set the Protect bit, the
write to the Overflow register will be dropped, and bits [9:8] of the
vertical height will be left unchanged.

This is a bug imported from the assembly version of this code.  It was
pointed out by Etienne Lorrain.

Cc: Etienne Lorrain <etienne_lorrain@yahoo.fr>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2007-07-18 11:36:17 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
5593eaa854 [x86 setup] Fix assembly constraints
Fix incorrect assembly constraints.  In particular, fix memory
constraints used inside push..pop, which can cause invalid operation
since gcc may generate %esp-relative references.

Additionally:

outl() should have "dN" not "dn".

query_mca() shouldn't listen 16/32-bit registers in an 8-bit only
context.

has_eflag(): the "mask" is only used well after both the stack pointer
and the output registers have been touched; this requires the output
registers to be earlyclobbers (=&) and the input to exclude memory (so
"ri", not "g").

Thanks to Etienne Lorrain and Chuck Ebbert for prompting this review.

Cc: Etienne Lorrain <etienne_lorrain@yahoo.fr>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2007-07-18 11:36:17 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
9aa3909c0e [x86 setup] build/tools.c: fix comment
Correct a comment in arch/i386/boot/build/tools.c; we now build the
kernel from only two components instead of three, since the boot
sector has been integrated in the setup code.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2007-07-18 11:36:17 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
600b2fc242 xen: suppress abs symbol warnings for unused reloc pointers
arch/i386/xen/xen-asm.S defines some small pieces of code which are
used to implement a few paravirt_ops.  They're designed so they can be
used either in-place, or be inline patched into their callsites if
there's enough space.

Some of those operations need to make calls out (specifically, if you
re-enable events [interrupts], and there's a pending event at that
time).  These calls need the call instruction to be relocated if the
code is patched inline.  In this case xen_foo_reloc is a
section-relative symbol which points to xen_foo's required relocation.

Other operations have no need of a relocation, and so their
corresponding xen_bar_reloc is absolute 0.  These are the cases which
are triggering the warning.

This patch adds those symbols to the list of safe abs symbols.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2007-07-18 08:47:45 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
c397368232 Remove old i386 setup code
This removes the old i386 setup code.  This is done as a separate patch
to avoid breaking git bisect as some of the i386 code was also used by
the old x86-64 code.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-12 10:55:56 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
4fd06960f1 Use the new x86 setup code for i386
This patch hooks the new x86 setup code into the Makefile machinery.  It
also adapts boot/tools/build.c to a two-file (as opposed to three-file)
universe, and simplifies it substantially.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-12 10:55:55 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
f2d98ae63d Linker script for the new x86 setup code
Linker script to define the layout of the new x86 setup code.
Includes assert for size overflow and a misaligned setup header.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-12 10:55:55 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
626073132b Assembly header and main routine for new x86 setup code
The assembly header and initialization code, and the main() routine.
main.c also contains some miscellaneous very short routines.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-12 10:55:55 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
7052fdd890 Code for actual protected-mode entry
This is the code which actually does the switch to protected mode,
including all preparation.  It is also responsible for invoking the
boot loader hooks, if present.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-12 10:55:55 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
5e8ddcbe86 Video mode probing support for the new x86 setup code
Video mode probing for the new x86 setup code.  This code breaks down
different drivers into modules.  This code deliberately drops support
for a lot of the vendor-specific mode probing present in the assembly
version, since a lot of those probes have been found to be stale in
current versions of those chips -- frequently, support for those modes
have been dropped from recent video BIOSes due to space constraints,
but the video BIOS signatures are still the same.

However, additional drivers should be extremely straightforward to plug
in, if desirable.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-12 10:55:55 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
337496eb73 Voyager support for the new x86 setup code
Voyager support for the new x86 setup code.  This implements the same
functionality as the assembly version.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-12 10:55:55 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
449f2ab946 Memory probing support for the new x86 setup code
Probe memory (INT 15h: E820, E801, 88).

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-12 10:55:55 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
3b53d3045b MCA support for new x86 setup code
MCA probing support for the new x86 setup code.  This implements the
same functionality as the assembly version.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-12 10:55:55 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
d13444a5a5 EDD probing code for the new x86 setup code
Probe EDD and MBR signatures, in order to make it easier to map
physical hard drives to BIOS drives.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-12 10:55:55 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
31b54f40e1 CPU features verification for the new x86 setup code
Verify that the CPU has enough features to run the kernel.  This may
entail enabling features on some CPUs.

By doing this in the setup code we can be guaranteed to still be able to
write to the console through the BIOS.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-12 10:55:55 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
0008ea39bd Version string for the new x86 setup code
Module which only includes the kernel version string.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-12 10:55:55 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
1543610ad7 Console-writing code for the new x86 setup code
This implements writing text to the console, including printf().

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-12 10:55:55 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
e44c22f65f Command-line parsing code for the new x86 setup code
Simple command-line parser which allows us to access the kernel command
line from the setup code.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-12 10:55:55 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
49df18fa3f APM probing code
APM probing code for the new x86 setup code.  This implements the
same functionality as the assembly version.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-12 10:55:55 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
5a8a8128bc A20 handling code
A20 handling code for the new x86 setup code.  This implements the same
algorithms as the assembly version.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-12 10:55:55 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
5be8656615 String-handling functions for the new x86 setup code.
strcmp(), memcpy(), memset(), as well as routines to copy to and from
other segments (as pointed to by fs and gs).

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-12 10:55:55 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
ad7e906d56 Simple bitops for the new x86 setup code.
A simple collection of bitops for the new x86 setup code.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-12 10:55:54 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
62bd0337d0 Top header file for new x86 setup code
Top header file for the new x86 setup code.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-12 10:55:54 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
f7f4a5fbd2 Header file to produce 16-bit code with gcc
gcc for i386 can be used with the assembly prefix ".code16gcc" to generate
16-bit (real-mode) code.  This header file provides the assembly prefix.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-12 10:55:54 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
85414b693a Define zero-page offset 0x1e4 as a scratch field, and use it
The relocatable kernel code needs a scratch field for the decompressor
to determine its own location.  It was using a location inside
struct screen_info; reserve a free location and document it as scratch
instead.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-12 10:55:54 -07:00
Christian Volkmann
4c1f59d8be i386: Fix wrong CPU error message in early boot path
- boot/setup.S did not print "PANIC: CPU too old for this kernel"
  ( not visible, also the message did not match )
- I add "# missed before: set ds"
  => somebody should check if I am right with the way to set.
  => seems to be a generic error in setup.S not to set "ds" for error messages.

AK: extracted patch out of other changes
AK: also couldn't find any other case where ds is wrong
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-21 09:56:57 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
01e73be3c8 Revert "fbdev: ignore VESA modes if framebuffer is disabled"
This reverts commit 464bdd33e9.

Peter Anvin correctly points out that VESA modes have nothing to do with
frame buffers per se - they are often just regular extended text modes.
Disabling them just because we don't have frame buffer support is very
wrong.

Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Antonino A. Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>,
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 20:12:30 -07:00
Antonino A. Daplas
464bdd33e9 fbdev: ignore VESA modes if framebuffer is disabled
If the option vga=<VESA graphics mode> is added to the boot parameter, it will
activate graphics mode, but without any framebuffer support, the user is left
with an unusable display.

Change the behavior such that the user is instead prompted for another mode
(ala vga=ask).

NOTE: People can always use vbetool to set a graphics mode if this is really
desired, but the number of people doing this approaches zero.

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:26 -07:00
Andi Kleen
c7f81c9453 [PATCH] i386: Verify important CPUID bits in real mode
Check some CPUID bits that are needed for compiler generated early in boot.
When the system is still in real mode before changing the VESA BIOS mode
it is possible to still display an visible error message on the screen.

Similar to x86-64.

Includes cleanups from Eric Biederman

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2007-05-02 19:27:20 +02:00
Andi Kleen
484ad39365 [PATCH] i386: Drop -traditional in arch/i386/boot
Needed for followon patch

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2007-05-02 19:27:20 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
35c7422649 [PATCH] x86: deflate stack usage in lib/inflate.c
inflate_fixed and huft_build together use around 2.7k of stack.  When
using 4k stacks, I saw stack overflows from interrupts arriving while
unpacking the root initrd:

do_IRQ: stack overflow: 384
 [<c0106b64>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30
 [<c01075e6>] show_trace+0x12/0x14
 [<c010763f>] dump_stack+0x16/0x18
 [<c0107ca4>] do_IRQ+0x6d/0xd9
 [<c010202b>] xen_evtchn_do_upcall+0x6e/0xa2
 [<c0106781>] xen_hypervisor_callback+0x25/0x2c
 [<c010116c>] xen_restore_fl+0x27/0x29
 [<c0330f63>] _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x4a/0x50
 [<c0117aab>] change_page_attr+0x577/0x584
 [<c0117b45>] kernel_map_pages+0x8d/0xb4
 [<c016a314>] cache_alloc_refill+0x53f/0x632
 [<c016a6c2>] __kmalloc+0xc1/0x10d
 [<c0463d34>] malloc+0x10/0x12
 [<c04641c1>] huft_build+0x2a7/0x5fa
 [<c04645a5>] inflate_fixed+0x91/0x136
 [<c04657e2>] unpack_to_rootfs+0x5f2/0x8c1
 [<c0465acf>] populate_rootfs+0x1e/0xe4

(This was under Xen, but there's no reason it couldn't happen on bare
  hardware.)

This patch mallocs the local variables, thereby reducing the stack
usage to sane levels.

Also, up the heap size for the kernel decompressor to deal with the
extra allocation.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Tim Yamin <plasmaroo@gentoo.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
2007-05-02 19:27:15 +02:00
Bernhard Walle
8f9aeca7a0 [PATCH] x86: add command line length to boot protocol
Because the command line is increased to 2048 characters after 2.6.21, it's
not possible for boot loaders and userspace tools to determine the length
of the command line the kernel can understand.  The benefit of knowing the
length is that users can be warned if the command line size is too long
which prevents surprise if things don't work after bootup.

This patch updates the boot protocol to contain a field called
"cmdline_size" that contain the length of the command line (excluding the
terminating zero).

The patch also adds missing fields (of protocol version 2.05) to the x86_64
setup code.

Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-02 19:27:10 +02:00
Zwane Mwaikambo
a369a7100d [PATCH] x86: Don't probe for DDC on VBE1.2
VBE1.2 doesn't support function 15h (DDC) resulting in a 'hang' whilst
uncompressing kernel with some video cards. Make sure we check VBE version
before fiddling around with DDC.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1458

Opened: 2003-10-30 09:12 Last update: 2007-02-13 22:03

Much thanks to Tobias Hain for help in testing and investigating the bug.
Tested on;

i386, Chips & Technologies 65548 VESA VBE 1.2
CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=Y
CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID=Y

Untested on x86_64.

Signed-off-by: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2007-04-02 12:14:12 +02:00