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authorAni Sinha <anisinha@redhat.com>2024-07-19 19:19:37 +0530
committerMichael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>2024-08-23 12:07:23 +0300
commit80e3541282af347538a37ee0673bcc04c622ad1c (patch)
treedca6b93ef39fa9124f30b76bd0fc4a55ce45d7c7 /hw/i386/x86-common.c
parent407f9a4b121eb65166375c410e14d7b704bc1106 (diff)
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hw/x86: add a couple of comments explaining how the kernel image is parsed
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'hw/i386/x86-common.c')
-rw-r--r--hw/i386/x86-common.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
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 {
         /*