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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 11/12] x86, boot: add fields to support load bzImage
 and ramdisk high
From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
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On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 11:18 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:

> Then whatever loads vmlinux.elf is responsible for initializing those
> fields to zero anyway.  It is still an atrocious abuse.  What we
> probably need to do is to include the initialized header in a section in
> vmlinux.elf containing the default struct boot_params.  This is the kind
> of things that happen when people do things without thinking through all
> the consequences.

ok, will remove the version checking in kernel.

also do you still think need to move ext_ramdisk... ext_cmd_line_ptr
from setup_header to boot_param ?