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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-07-25 13:56:39 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-07-25 13:56:39 -0700
commitd3ec4844d449cf7af9e749f73ba2052fb7b72fc2 (patch)
treec515913e85f7e50878c83da2a88bc5a7269d087c /Documentation/blockdev
parent0003230e8200699860f0b10af524dc47bf8aecad (diff)
parentdf2e301fee3c2c2a87592151397ad7699bb14c37 (diff)
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (43 commits) fs: Merge split strings treewide: fix potentially dangerous trailing ';' in #defined values/expressions uwb: Fix misspelling of neighbourhood in comment net, netfilter: Remove redundant goto in ebt_ulog_packet trivial: don't touch files that are removed in the staging tree lib/vsprintf: replace link to Draft by final RFC number doc: Kconfig: `to be' -> `be' doc: Kconfig: Typo: square -> squared doc: Konfig: Documentation/power/{pm => apm-acpi}.txt drivers/net: static should be at beginning of declaration drivers/media: static should be at beginning of declaration drivers/i2c: static should be at beginning of declaration XTENSA: static should be at beginning of declaration SH: static should be at beginning of declaration MIPS: static should be at beginning of declaration ARM: static should be at beginning of declaration rcu: treewide: Do not use rcu_read_lock_held when calling rcu_dereference_check Update my e-mail address PCIe ASPM: forcedly -> forcibly gma500: push through device driver tree ... Fix up trivial conflicts: - arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/dma-m2p.c (deleted) - drivers/gpio/gpio-ep93xx.c (renamed and context nearby) - drivers/net/r8169.c (just context changes)
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/blockdev')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/blockdev/README.DAC9602
-rw-r--r--Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt8
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/blockdev/README.DAC960 b/Documentation/blockdev/README.DAC960
index 0e8f618ab534..bd85fb9dc6e5 100644
--- a/Documentation/blockdev/README.DAC960
+++ b/Documentation/blockdev/README.DAC960
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ replacing "/usr/src" with wherever you keep your Linux kernel source tree:
make config
make bzImage (or zImage)
-Then install "arch/i386/boot/bzImage" or "arch/i386/boot/zImage" as your
+Then install "arch/x86/boot/bzImage" or "arch/x86/boot/zImage" as your
standard kernel, run lilo if appropriate, and reboot.
To create the necessary devices in /dev, the "make_rd" script included in
diff --git a/Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt b/Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt
index 6c820baa19a6..fa72e97dd669 100644
--- a/Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt
+++ b/Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt
@@ -64,9 +64,9 @@ the RAM disk dynamically grows as data is being written into it, a size field
is not required. Bits 11 to 13 are not currently used and may as well be zero.
These numbers are no magical secrets, as seen below:
-./arch/i386/kernel/setup.c:#define RAMDISK_IMAGE_START_MASK 0x07FF
-./arch/i386/kernel/setup.c:#define RAMDISK_PROMPT_FLAG 0x8000
-./arch/i386/kernel/setup.c:#define RAMDISK_LOAD_FLAG 0x4000
+./arch/x86/kernel/setup.c:#define RAMDISK_IMAGE_START_MASK 0x07FF
+./arch/x86/kernel/setup.c:#define RAMDISK_PROMPT_FLAG 0x8000
+./arch/x86/kernel/setup.c:#define RAMDISK_LOAD_FLAG 0x4000
Consider a typical two floppy disk setup, where you will have the
kernel on disk one, and have already put a RAM disk image onto disk #2.
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ The command line equivalent is: "prompt_ramdisk=1"
Putting that together gives 2^15 + 2^14 + 0 = 49152 for an rdev word.
So to create disk one of the set, you would do:
- /usr/src/linux# cat arch/i386/boot/zImage > /dev/fd0
+ /usr/src/linux# cat arch/x86/boot/zImage > /dev/fd0
/usr/src/linux# rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/fd0
/usr/src/linux# rdev -r /dev/fd0 49152