From 8a4848921af180367621e69586359e6d94776081 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: okuji Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 17:55:49 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] 2006-04-16 Yoshinori K. Okuji * docs/multiboot.texi: Correct the offset of address fields. Reported by Jeroen Dekkers. --- ChangeLog | 5 +++++ docs/multiboot.texi | 9 ++++++--- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 3fd2dad25..d61cabc9b 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2006-04-16 Yoshinori K. Okuji + + * docs/multiboot.texi: Correct the offset of address + fields. Reported by Jeroen Dekkers. + 2006-03-21 Yoshinori K. Okuji * stage2/builtins.c (setup_func): Specify the size of DEVICE to diff --git a/docs/multiboot.texi b/docs/multiboot.texi index c39093097..046bc4499 100644 --- a/docs/multiboot.texi +++ b/docs/multiboot.texi @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ @ifinfo Copyright @copyright{} 1995, 96 Bryan Ford Copyright @copyright{} 1995, 96 Erich Stefan Boleyn -Copyright @copyright{} 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright @copyright{} 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions. @vskip 0pt plus 1filll Copyright @copyright{} 1995, 96 Bryan Ford Copyright @copyright{} 1995, 96 Erich Stefan Boleyn -Copyright @copyright{} 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright @copyright{} 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice @@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ mode table (@pxref{Boot information format}) must be available to the kernel. If bit 16 in the @samp{flags} word is set, then the fields at offsets -8-24 in the Multiboot header are valid, and the boot loader should use +12-28 in the Multiboot header are valid, and the boot loader should use them instead of the fields in the actual executable header to calculate where to load the OS image. This information does not need to be provided if the kernel image is in @sc{elf} format, but it @emph{must} @@ -1203,6 +1203,9 @@ The maintainer changes to the GNU GRUB maintainer team The byte order of the @samp{boot_device} in Multiboot information is reversed. This was a mistake. +@item +The offset of the address fields were wrong. + @item 0.6 @itemize @bullet @item