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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2012-10-25 20:17:02 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2012-10-26 12:18:38 +0200
commitc6039f4a00901259517b7c027007697105209968 (patch)
tree63e2b8a9b8dcb548552fd5c4bc28399aea1e9698 /Documentation/x86
parent2ab3f29dddfb444c9fcc0a2f3a56ed4bdba41969 (diff)
x86/boot/doc: Fix grammar and typo in boot.txt
Fixes some minor issues in the x86 boot documentation. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121026031702.GA23828@www.outflux.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/x86')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/x86/boot.txt4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/boot.txt b/Documentation/x86/boot.txt
index 9efceff51bf..f15cb74c4f7 100644
--- a/Documentation/x86/boot.txt
+++ b/Documentation/x86/boot.txt
@@ -1013,7 +1013,7 @@ boot_params as that of 16-bit boot protocol, the boot loader should
also fill the additional fields of the struct boot_params as that
described in zero-page.txt.
-After setupping the struct boot_params, the boot loader can load the
+After setting up the struct boot_params, the boot loader can load the
32/64-bit kernel in the same way as that of 16-bit boot protocol.
In 32-bit boot protocol, the kernel is started by jumping to the
@@ -1023,7 +1023,7 @@ In 32-bit boot protocol, the kernel is started by jumping to the
At entry, the CPU must be in 32-bit protected mode with paging
disabled; a GDT must be loaded with the descriptors for selectors
__BOOT_CS(0x10) and __BOOT_DS(0x18); both descriptors must be 4G flat
-segment; __BOOS_CS must have execute/read permission, and __BOOT_DS
+segment; __BOOT_CS must have execute/read permission, and __BOOT_DS
must have read/write permission; CS must be __BOOT_CS and DS, ES, SS
must be __BOOT_DS; interrupt must be disabled; %esi must hold the base
address of the struct boot_params; %ebp, %edi and %ebx must be zero.