Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH QEMU v1 0/4] multiboot: bss_end_addr can be zero / cleanup

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 21.12.2017 um 18:25 hat Jack Schwartz geschrieben:
> Properly account for the possibility of multiboot kernels with a zero
> bss_end_addr.  The Multiboot Specification, section 3.1.3 allows for
> kernels without a bss section, by allowing a zeroed bss_end_addr multiboot
> header field.
> 
> Do some cleanup to multiboot.c as well:
> - Remove some unused variables.
> - Use more intuitive header names when displaying fields in messages.
> - Change fprintf(stderr...) to error_report
> 
> Testing:
>   1) Ran the "make check" test suite.
>   2) Booted multiboot kernel with bss_end_addr=0.  (I rolled my own
>      grub multiboot.elf test "kernel" by modifying source.)  Verified
>      with gdb that new code that reads addresses/offsets from multiboot
>      header was accessed.
>   3) Booted multiboot kernel with non-zero bss_end_addr.
>   4) Uncommented DEBUG_MULTIBOOT in multiboot.c and verified messages worked.
>   5) Code has soaked in an internal repo for two months.
> 
>       Thanks,
>       Jack

Thanks, applied to my multiboot branch.

Kevin