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Re: [PATCH] memtest86+ fix


From: Yoshinori K. Okuji
Subject: Re: [PATCH] memtest86+ fix
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 00:46:15 +0100
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On Wednesday 02 January 2008 18:05, Robert Millan wrote:
> This fixes boot for memtest86+ (and actually, Linux zImages since they were
> all affected).
>
> The problem was that the first code in grub_linux_boot_zimage copied the
> payload from  0x100000 to 0x10000.  Since GRUB starts at 0x8200 and is
> typicaly more than 8 kiB in size, it'll most likely overwrite part of it.
>
> A bit of reestructuring was necessary to allow grub_dl_unload_all() to
> happen unconditionally as first step, since the information on whether this
> is a "big linux" was not promptly available.
>
> Comments?

It is okay, except for "grub_linux_big"... I cannot figure out what it wants 
to say. As you want to make it global, please choose a more expressive name, 
such as "grub_big_linux_loaded".

Okuji




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