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H. Peter Anvin authored
This patch exports to userspace the boot loader ID which has been exported by (b)zImage boot loaders since boot protocol version 2. It is needed so that update tools that update kernels from vendors know which bootloader file they need to update; eg right now those tools do all kinds of hairy heuristics to find out if it's grub or lilo or .. that installed the kernel. Those heuristics are fragile in the presence of more than one bootloader (which isn't that uncommon in OS upgrade situations). Tested on i386 and x86-64; as far as I know those are the only architectures which use zImage/bzImage format. Signed-Off-By: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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