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2009-03-05Merge branch 'x86/doc' into x86/coreIngo Molnar
2009-03-05x86/doc: mini-howto for using earlyprintk=dbgpYinghai Lu
[ mingo: small edits and extensions. ] Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@intel.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <49AF18B7.4050305@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-04Merge branches 'x86/apic', 'x86/cpu', 'x86/fixmap', 'x86/mm', 'x86/sched', ↵Ingo Molnar
'x86/setup-lzma', 'x86/signal' and 'x86/urgent' into x86/core
2009-01-15Documentation/x86/boot.txt: modify fieldnameBaodong Chen
Modify field names to the right ones: - start_sys was changed to start_sys_seg - iinitrd_addr_max was changed to ramdisk_max - pad2 was changed to pad2 and pad3 - readmode_swtch was changed to realmode_swtch Signed-off-by: Baodong Chen <[email]chenbdchenbd@gmail.com[email]> Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-14bzip2/lzma: update boot protocol specificationH. Peter Anvin
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>
2009-01-10Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (36 commits) x86: fix section mismatch warnings in mcheck/mce_amd_64.c x86: offer frame pointers in all build modes x86: remove duplicated #include's x86: k8 numa register active regions later x86: update Alan Cox's email addresses x86: rename all fields of mpc_table mpc_X to X x86: rename all fields of mpc_oemtable oem_X to X x86: rename all fields of mpc_bus mpc_X to X x86: rename all fields of mpc_cpu mpc_X to X x86: rename all fields of mpc_intsrc mpc_X to X x86: rename all fields of mpc_lintsrc mpc_X to X x86: rename all fields of mpc_iopic mpc_X to X x86: irqinit_64.c init_ISA_irqs should be static Documentation/x86/boot.txt: payload length was changed to payload_length x86: setup_percpu.c fix style problems x86: irqinit_64.c fix style problems x86: irqinit_32.c fix style problems x86: i8259.c fix style problems x86: irq_32.c fix style problems x86: ioport.c fix style problems ...
2009-01-06documentation: update header file pathsRandy Dunlap
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>
2009-01-04Documentation/x86/boot.txt: payload length was changed to payload_lengthBaodong Chen
Signed-off-by: Baodong Chen <[email]chenbdchenbd@gmail.com[email]> Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-23Merge branches 'x86/apic', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/cpufeature', ↵Ingo Molnar
'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
2008-12-19x86: PAT: pfnmap documentation update changesvenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
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>
2008-12-18x86: PAT: update documentation to cover pgprot and remap_pfn related changes ↵venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
- 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>
2008-12-16x86: documentation fix regarding boot protocolPhilipp Kohlbecher
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>
2008-12-16Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc8' into x86/docIngo Molnar
2008-11-11x86/doc: spelling fix for grubKOSAKI Motohiro
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>
2008-11-11x86, 64-bit: update address space documentationJiri Slaby
Impact: documentation update Commit a6523748bddd38bcec11431f57502090b6014a96 (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>
2008-11-03x86: nmi - nmi_watchdog boot param docs cleanupCyrill Gorcunov
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>
2008-10-28doc/x86: fix doc subdirsUwe Hermann
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>
2008-08-28x86: remove 8254 timer texts from DocumentationLuiz Fernando N. Capitulino
Commit ecd29476ae0143b1c3641edfa76c0fc3e9ad3021 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>
2008-08-21x86: PAT documentation updates with debug infovenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
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>
2008-07-28documentation: move mtrr.txt to Doc/x86/ subdirRandy Dunlap
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>
2008-07-22x86: doc: boot.txt: fix the size of the start_sys fieldH. Peter Anvin
The start_sys field is two bytes, not four. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-07-22x86: doc: move x86-generic documentation from Doc/x86/i386H. Peter Anvin
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>
2008-07-08x86 boot: only pick up additional EFI memmap if add_efi_memmap flagPaul Jackson
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>
2008-07-08Merge branch 'x86/setup' into x86/develIngo Molnar
2008-05-30x86: move x86-specific documentation into Documentation/x86H. Peter Anvin
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>
2008-04-17x86: PAT documentationvenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
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>
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