Re: [PATCH v2] x86, boot: Allow 64bit EFI kernel to be loaded above 4G

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Tue Feb 24 2015 - 19:31:33 EST


On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Feb, at 07:43:48PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> +Field name: ext_code32_start
>> +Type: modify (optional, reloc)
>> +Offset/size: 0x268/4
>> +Protocol: 2.14+
>> +
>> + This field is the upper 32bits of load address when EFI 64bit kernel
>> + is loaded above 4G. And it is used with code32_start to compare to
>> + pref_address to decide if kernel need to be relocated further.
>
> I think we can delete the second sentence.
>
> But these are minimal changes and I'm happy to fix them up when applying
> this patch if that's OK?

Sure. Please go ahead.

Thanks

Yinghai
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