i386: paravirt boot sequence

This patch uses the updated boot protocol to do paravirtualized boot.
If the boot version is >= 2.07, then it will do two things:

 1. Check the bootparams loadflags to see if we should reload the
    segment registers and clear interrupts.  This is appropriate
    for normal native boot and some paravirtualized environments, but
    inapproprate for others.

 2. Check the hardware architecture, and dispatch to the appropriate
    kernel entrypoint.  If the bootloader doesn't set this, then we
    simply do the normal boot sequence.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Rusty Russell
2007-10-21 16:41:35 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 214541d1f3
commit a24e785111
4 changed files with 63 additions and 6 deletions

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@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ _start:
# Part 2 of the header, from the old setup.S
.ascii "HdrS" # header signature
.word 0x0206 # header version number (>= 0x0105)
.word 0x0207 # header version number (>= 0x0105)
# or else old loadlin-1.5 will fail)
.globl realmode_swtch
realmode_swtch: .word 0, 0 # default_switch, SETUPSEG
@@ -214,6 +214,11 @@ cmdline_size: .long COMMAND_LINE_SIZE-1 #length of the command line,
#added with boot protocol
#version 2.06
hardware_subarch: .long 0 # subarchitecture, added with 2.07
# default to 0 for normal x86 PC
hardware_subarch_data: .quad 0
# End of setup header #####################################################
.section ".inittext", "ax"