Add a note to spell out that if the address tag is not present the file should be loaded using the elf header.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <[email protected]> --- Cc: Daniel Kiper <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] --- Changes since v2: - Clarify that the address tag must be used if present. Changes since v1: - s/elf/@sc{elf}/ - s/Multiboot/Multiboot2/ --- doc/multiboot.texi | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/multiboot.texi b/doc/multiboot.texi index 2e2d7e74a..df8a0d056 100644 --- a/doc/multiboot.texi +++ b/doc/multiboot.texi @@ -509,6 +509,14 @@ assumes that no bss segment is present. @end table +Note: This information does not need to be provided if the kernel image +is in @sc{elf} format, but it must be provided if the image is in a.out +format or in some other format. When the address tag is present it must +be used in order to load the image, regardless of whether an @sc{elf} +header is also present. Compliant boot loaders must be able to load +images that are either in @sc{elf} format or contain the address tag +embedded in the Multiboot2 header. + @subsection The entry address tag of Multiboot2 header @example -- 2.17.1 _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel
