Re: [PATCH -mm -v2 2/2] i386/x86_64 boot: document for 32 bit bootprotocol

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Sep 19 2007 - 01:31:42 EST


Huang, Ying wrote:
> Known issues:
>
> - The hd0_info and hd1_info are deleted from the zero page. Additional
> work should be done for this? Or this is unnecessary (because no new
> fields will be added to zero page)?
>

For backwards compatibility, they should be marked as there for the
short-medium term so we don't reuse them for whatever reason.

-hpa
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