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authorGravatar Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> 2023-09-12 09:00:57 +0000
committerGravatar Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> 2023-09-15 11:18:42 +0200
commit7448e8e5d15a3c4df649bf6d6d460f78396f7e1e (patch)
treeb025c3ece6eea6375db430bc79ccebc40bfe133f /arch/x86/boot
parentx86/boot: Omit compression buffer from PE/COFF image memory footprint (diff)
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x86/boot: Drop redundant code setting the root device
The root device defaults to 0,0 and is no longer configurable at build time [0], so there is no need for the build tool to ever write to this field. [0] 079f85e624189292 ("x86, build: Do not set the root_dev field in bzImage") This change has no impact on the resulting bzImage binary. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230912090051.4014114-23-ardb@google.com
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/boot')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/boot/header.S2
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c7
2 files changed, 1 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/header.S b/arch/x86/boot/header.S
index a87d9133384b..6059f87b159d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/header.S
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/header.S
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ root_flags: .word ROOT_RDONLY
syssize: .long 0 /* Filled in by build.c */
ram_size: .word 0 /* Obsolete */
vid_mode: .word SVGA_MODE
-root_dev: .word 0 /* Filled in by build.c */
+root_dev: .word 0 /* Default to major/minor 0/0 */
boot_flag: .word 0xAA55
# offset 512, entry point
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c b/arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c
index 0354c223e354..efa4e9c7d713 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c
@@ -40,10 +40,6 @@ typedef unsigned char u8;
typedef unsigned short u16;
typedef unsigned int u32;
-#define DEFAULT_MAJOR_ROOT 0
-#define DEFAULT_MINOR_ROOT 0
-#define DEFAULT_ROOT_DEV (DEFAULT_MAJOR_ROOT << 8 | DEFAULT_MINOR_ROOT)
-
/* Minimal number of setup sectors */
#define SETUP_SECT_MIN 5
#define SETUP_SECT_MAX 64
@@ -399,9 +395,6 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv)
update_pecoff_setup_and_reloc(i);
- /* Set the default root device */
- put_unaligned_le16(DEFAULT_ROOT_DEV, &buf[508]);
-
/* Open and stat the kernel file */
fd = open(argv[2], O_RDONLY);
if (fd < 0)