Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] multiboot: Fix bss segment support

2011-07-24 Thread Göran Weinholt
Alexander Graf writes: > On 24.07.2011, at 12:14, Göran Weinholt wrote: > >> Multiboot images can specify a bss segment. The boot loader must clear >> the memory of the bss and ensure that no modules or structures are >> allocated inside it. Several fields are provided in the Multiboot >> header

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] multiboot: Fix bss segment support

2011-07-24 Thread Alexander Graf
On 24.07.2011, at 12:14, Göran Weinholt wrote: > Multiboot images can specify a bss segment. The boot loader must clear > the memory of the bss and ensure that no modules or structures are > allocated inside it. Several fields are provided in the Multiboot > header that were previously not used p

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] multiboot: Fix bss segment support

2011-07-24 Thread Göran Weinholt
Multiboot images can specify a bss segment. The boot loader must clear the memory of the bss and ensure that no modules or structures are allocated inside it. Several fields are provided in the Multiboot header that were previously not used properly. The header is now used to determine how much dat