x86, boot: add linked list of struct setup_data
This patch adds a field of 64-bit physical pointer to NULL terminated
single linked list of struct setup_data to real-mode kernel
header. This is used as a more extensible boot parameters passing
mechanism.
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>
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/header.S b/arch/x86/boot/header.S
index 6d2df8d..af86e43 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/header.S
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/header.S
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@
# Part 2 of the header, from the old setup.S
.ascii "HdrS" # header signature
- .word 0x0208 # header version number (>= 0x0105)
+ .word 0x0209 # header version number (>= 0x0105)
# or else old loadlin-1.5 will fail)
.globl realmode_swtch
realmode_swtch: .word 0, 0 # default_switch, SETUPSEG
@@ -227,6 +227,10 @@
payload_offset: .long input_data
payload_length: .long input_data_end-input_data
+setup_data: .quad 0 # 64-bit physical pointer to
+ # single linked list of
+ # struct setup_data
+
# End of setup header #####################################################
.section ".inittext", "ax"