x86, boot: add linked list of struct setup_data
This patch adds a field of 64-bit physical pointer to NULL terminated
single linked list of struct setup_data to real-mode kernel
header. This is used as a more extensible boot parameters passing
mechanism.
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup_64.c
index 17bdf23..e1a21d6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup_64.c
@@ -264,6 +264,26 @@
machine_specific_memory_setup();
}
+static void __init parse_setup_data(void)
+{
+ struct setup_data *data;
+ unsigned long pa_data;
+
+ if (boot_params.hdr.version < 0x0209)
+ return;
+ pa_data = boot_params.hdr.setup_data;
+ while (pa_data) {
+ data = early_ioremap(pa_data, PAGE_SIZE);
+ switch (data->type) {
+ default:
+ break;
+ }
+ free_early(pa_data, pa_data+sizeof(*data)+data->len);
+ pa_data = data->next;
+ early_iounmap(data, PAGE_SIZE);
+ }
+}
+
/*
* setup_arch - architecture-specific boot-time initializations
*
@@ -316,6 +336,8 @@
strlcpy(command_line, boot_command_line, COMMAND_LINE_SIZE);
*cmdline_p = command_line;
+ parse_setup_data();
+
parse_early_param();
#ifdef CONFIG_PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT