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[PULL,1/3] hw/x86: add a couple of comments explaining how the kernel image is parsed

Message ID 20240823141542.1411594-2-mjt@tls.msk.ru (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series [PULL,1/3] hw/x86: add a couple of comments explaining how the kernel image is parsed | expand

Commit Message

Michael Tokarev Aug. 23, 2024, 2:15 p.m. UTC 
From: Ani Sinha <anisinha@redhat.com>

Cosmetic: add comments in x86_load_linux() pointing to the kernel documentation
so that users can better understand the code.

CC: qemu-trivial@nongnu.org
Signed-off-by: Ani Sinha <anisinha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
---
 hw/i386/x86-common.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/hw/i386/x86-common.c b/hw/i386/x86-common.c
index c0c66a0eb5..992ea1f25e 100644
--- a/hw/i386/x86-common.c
+++ b/hw/i386/x86-common.c
@@ -665,8 +665,11 @@  void x86_load_linux(X86MachineState *x86ms,
         exit(1);
     }
 
-    /* kernel protocol version */
-    if (ldl_p(header + 0x202) == 0x53726448) {
+    /*
+     * kernel protocol version.
+     * Please see https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/x86/boot.txt
+     */
+    if (ldl_p(header + 0x202) == 0x53726448) /* Magic signature "HdrS" */ {
         protocol = lduw_p(header + 0x206);
     } else {
         /*