Re: [PATCH] EFI zero-page usage (keeping docs updated)

From: Randy.Dunlap
Date: Thu Jan 15 2004 - 12:31:36 EST


On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 03:35:09 +0100 Stefan Smietanowski <stesmi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

| Hi Randy.
|
| > Add x86 EFI zero-page usage to i386 docs.
| >
| > Please apply to 2.6.current...
| > 0xb0 - 0x1df Free. Add more parameters here if you really need them.
| ^^^^^
|
| Change that to 0x1c3 instead since it's now used by EFI :)

Thanks, Stefan.
Here's the updated patch.



Add x86 EFI zero-page usage to i386 docs.

Please apply.

KERNELRELEASE: 2.6.1

diffstat:=
Documentation/i386/zero-page.txt | 7 ++++++-
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -Naurp ./Documentation/i386/zero-page.txt~efidocs ./Documentation/i386/zero-page.txt
--- ./Documentation/i386/zero-page.txt~efidocs 2004-01-08 22:59:26.000000000 -0800
+++ ./Documentation/i386/zero-page.txt 2004-01-15 09:26:06.000000000 -0800
@@ -28,8 +28,13 @@ Offset Type Description

0xa0 16 bytes System description table truncated to 16 bytes.
( struct sys_desc_table_struct )
- 0xb0 - 0x1df Free. Add more parameters here if you really need them.
+ 0xb0 - 0x1c3 Free. Add more parameters here if you really need them.

+0x1c4 unsigned long EFI system table pointer
+0x1c8 unsigned long EFI memory descriptor size
+0x1cc unsigned long EFI memory descriptor version
+0x1d0 unsigned long EFI memory descriptor map pointer
+0x1d4 unsigned long EFI memory descriptor map size
0x1e0 unsigned long ALT_MEM_K, alternative mem check, in Kb
0x1e8 char number of entries in E820MAP (below)
0x1e9 unsigned char number of entries in EDDBUF (below)
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