Commit Graph

20 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
H. Peter Anvin
ee287587da bzip2/lzma: update boot protocol specification
Impact: documentation

Update the boot protocol specification to include the currently
supported file formats and their magic numbers.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2009-01-14 16:07:38 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
07983f0e36 documentation: update header file paths
Update several Documentation/ files and a few sub-dir files (only one
change in each) to reflect changed header files locations.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:28 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
fa623d1b02 Merge branches 'x86/apic', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/cpufeature', 'x86/crashdump', 'x86/debug', 'x86/defconfig', 'x86/detect-hyper', 'x86/doc', 'x86/dumpstack', 'x86/early-printk', 'x86/fpu', 'x86/idle', 'x86/io', 'x86/memory-corruption-check', 'x86/microcode', 'x86/mm', 'x86/mtrr', 'x86/nmi-watchdog', 'x86/pat2', 'x86/pci-ioapic-boot-irq-quirks', 'x86/ptrace', 'x86/quirks', 'x86/reboot', 'x86/setup-memory', 'x86/signal', 'x86/sparse-fixes', 'x86/time', 'x86/uv' and 'x86/xen' into x86/core 2008-12-23 16:27:23 +01:00
venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
67bac792cd x86: PAT: pfnmap documentation update changes
Impact: Documentation only.

Documentation updates as per Randy Dunlap's comments.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-12-19 15:40:31 -08:00
venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
a2ced6e173 x86: PAT: update documentation to cover pgprot and remap_pfn related changes - v3
Impact: Documentation only.

Add documentation related to pgprot_* change.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-12-18 13:30:16 -08:00
Philipp Kohlbecher
e1286f2c68 x86: documentation fix regarding boot protocol
Impact: clarify documentation

Documentation/x86/boot.txt describes payload_offset as the offset
from the end of the real-mode code. In fact, it is more accurately
described as the offset from the beginning of the protected-mode
code, as (a) this is how it is actually calculated and (b) the padding
after the real-mode code is not included in the offset.

Signed-off-by: Philipp Kohlbecher <xt28@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-16 22:05:09 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
78f902ccc5 Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc8' into x86/doc 2008-12-16 22:04:48 +01:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
9ee670fd87 x86/doc: spelling fix for grub
Impact: documentation fix

I met okuji-san (GRUB maintainer) yesterday.
He said GRuB isn't correct spelled and he want to fix it.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-11 19:30:31 +01:00
Jiri Slaby
a4c52791fa x86, 64-bit: update address space documentation
Impact: documentation update

Commit a6523748bd
(paravirt/x86, 64-bit: move __PAGE_OFFSET to leave a space for hypervisor)
changed address space without changing the documentation.

Change it according to the code change -- direct mapping start:
ffff810000000000 => ffff880000000000 which gives 57 TiB, something
between 45 and 46 bits.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-11 19:30:28 +01:00
Cyrill Gorcunov
5b9a0e14eb x86: nmi - nmi_watchdog boot param docs cleanup
Impact: documentation update

1) nmi_watchdog boot parameter is common to 32/64 bit modes. So
   move it from Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt to
   Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt and integrate with.

2) Also fix [panic] keyword placement -- it ought to be at first
   position otherwise it will not be recognized.

3) Document lapic and ioapic keywords.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-03 09:17:39 +01:00
Uwe Hermann
71cced6eb0 doc/x86: fix doc subdirs
The Documentation/i386 and Documentation/x86_64 directories and their
contents have been moved into Documentation/x86. Fix references to
those files accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-28 16:36:42 +01:00
Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
1befdefcf4 x86: remove 8254 timer texts from Documentation
Commit ecd29476ae removed the
"disable_8254_timer" and "enable_8254_timer" kernel parameters from
the kernel but did not remove the references to them from two
files in the Documentation directory: kernel-parameters.txt and
x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt.

This change completes the removal.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Acked-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-28 18:20:14 +02:00
venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
59dfc3f8fb x86: PAT documentation updates with debug info
Documentation update for PAT. Reflect the latest API details.
Also, adds details about ways to get more info in order to debug PAT.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-21 13:30:15 +02:00
Randy Dunlap
7225e75144 documentation: move mtrr.txt to Doc/x86/ subdir
Move mtrr.txt to the Documentation/x86/ subdirectory.
Add 00-INDEX to the Documentation/x86/ subdirectory.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-28 14:46:49 +02:00
H. Peter Anvin
a021e5124a x86: doc: boot.txt: fix the size of the start_sys field
The start_sys field is two bytes, not four.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-07-22 15:34:41 -04:00
H. Peter Anvin
5616c23ad9 x86: doc: move x86-generic documentation from Doc/x86/i386
The boot protocol, USB legacy support, and zero-page documentation is
common to the x86 platform, not i386-specific.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-07-22 15:34:38 -04:00
Paul Jackson
200001eb14 x86 boot: only pick up additional EFI memmap if add_efi_memmap flag
Applies on top of the previous patch:
  x86 boot: add code to add BIOS provided EFI memory entries to kernel

Instead of always adding EFI memory map entries (if present) to the
memory map after initially finding either E820 BIOS memory map entries
and/or kernel command line memmap entries, -instead- only add such
additional EFI memory map entries if the kernel boot option:

    add_efi_memmap

is specified.

Requiring this 'add_efi_memmap' option is backward compatible with
kernels that didn't load such additional EFI memory map entries in
the first place, and it doesn't override a configuration that tries
to replace all E820 or EFI BIOS memory map entries with ones given
entirely on the kernel command line.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: "Jack Steiner" <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: "Mike Travis" <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: "Huang
Cc: Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: "Andi Kleen" <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08 13:10:41 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
3c1ca43faf Merge branch 'x86/setup' into x86/devel 2008-07-08 09:43:01 +02:00
H. Peter Anvin
23deb06821 x86: move x86-specific documentation into Documentation/x86
The current organization of the x86 documentation makes it appear as
if the "i386" documentation doesn't apply to x86-64, which is does.
Thus, move that documentation into Documentation/x86, and move the
x86-64-specific stuff into Documentation/x86/x86_64 with the eventual
goal to move stuff that isn't actually 64-bit specific back into
Documentation/x86.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-05-30 17:19:03 -07:00
venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
d27554d874 x86: PAT documentation
Documentation about PAT related interfaces, intended usage and memory attribute
relationship.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-17 17:41:19 +02:00