Re: Kernel patches

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@Julia.DE>]

Hi,

(so here I'm again reporting from the Linux Kongress in Berlin live
and exclusive for the Linux/MIPS mailing list ...)

> > However, there is one minor problem with this idea.  There are
> > currently (as of .26 anyway) parts of MILO that cannot be distributed
> > as source and are binary only (although some of the information in the
> > binary only code is also in the sources to OpenBSD).  It may be tricky
> > to arrange for things of this nature to be in the tree.
> 
> Could someone provide us with information about what happens in the
> parts of milo that cannot be distributed?  We have been looking for
> the definitions of the bootinfo and screeninfo structures because we
> are trying to simulate what happens in milo.

The definitions for most of the bootinformation passed to the kernel is
defined in <asm/bootinfo.h>

  Ralf