Commit e1286f2c authored by Philipp Kohlbecher's avatar Philipp Kohlbecher Committed by Ingo Molnar

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: default avatarPhilipp Kohlbecher <xt28@gmx.de>
Acked-by: default avatarIan Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Acked-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent 78f902cc
......@@ -537,8 +537,8 @@ Type: read
Offset/size: 0x248/4
Protocol: 2.08+
If non-zero then this field contains the offset from the end of the
real-mode code to the payload.
If non-zero then this field contains the offset from the beginning
of the protected-mode code to the payload.
The payload may be compressed. The format of both the compressed and
uncompressed data should be determined using the standard magic
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