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authorDomen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>2005-06-25 14:58:59 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>2005-06-25 16:25:02 -0700
commitf45494480f31342125870c1a184999d7c5a59471 (patch)
treea80289b970b9f1be993268e21d8d5ed8be57a6fe /arch/x86_64/boot
parent23712b2fbf6b845289c1d41d929be0931fab2759 (diff)
[PATCH] x86_64: coding style and whitespace fixups
Remove some of the unnecessary differences between arch/i386 and arch/x86_64. This patch fixes more whitespace issues, some miscellaneous typos, a wrong URL and a factually incorrect statement about the current boot sector code. Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86_64/boot')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/head.S4
-rw-r--r--arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/misc.c2
-rw-r--r--arch/x86_64/boot/install.sh2
-rw-r--r--arch/x86_64/boot/setup.S8
-rw-r--r--arch/x86_64/boot/tools/build.c5
5 files changed, 9 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/head.S b/arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/head.S
index b0df2aeff5d..6f55565e4d4 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/head.S
+++ b/arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/head.S
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@
* linux/boot/head.S
*
* Copyright (C) 1991, 1992, 1993 Linus Torvalds
- *
- * $Id: head.S,v 1.3 2001/04/20 00:59:28 ak Exp $
*/
/*
@@ -21,7 +19,7 @@
*/
/*
- * High loaded stuff by Hans Lermen & Werner Almesberger, Feb. 1996
+ * High loaded stuff by Hans Lermen & Werner Almesberger, Feb. 1996
*/
.code32
.text
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/misc.c b/arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/misc.c
index f992aef141b..b38d5b8b5fb 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/misc.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/misc.c
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ void* memset(void* s, int c, unsigned n);
void* memcpy(void* dest, const void* src, unsigned n);
static void putstr(const char *);
-
+
extern int end;
static long free_mem_ptr = (long)&end;
static long free_mem_end_ptr;
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/boot/install.sh b/arch/x86_64/boot/install.sh
index f17b40dfc0f..198af15a775 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/boot/install.sh
+++ b/arch/x86_64/boot/install.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
#!/bin/sh
#
-# arch/i386/boot/install.sh
+# arch/x86_64/boot/install.sh
#
# This file is subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public
# License. See the file "COPYING" in the main directory of this archive
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/boot/setup.S b/arch/x86_64/boot/setup.S
index 75d4d2ad93b..ff58b2832b7 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/boot/setup.S
+++ b/arch/x86_64/boot/setup.S
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
* Transcribed from Intel (as86) -> AT&T (gas) by Chris Noe, May 1999.
* <stiker@northlink.com>
*
- * Fix to work around buggy BIOSes which dont use carry bit correctly
+ * Fix to work around buggy BIOSes which don't use carry bit correctly
* and/or report extended memory in CX/DX for e801h memory size detection
* call. As a result the kernel got wrong figures. The int15/e801h docs
* from Ralf Brown interrupt list seem to indicate AX/BX should be used
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ sse_ok:
# a whole bunch of different types, and allows memory holes and
# everything. We scan through this memory map and build a list
# of the first 32 memory areas, which we return at [E820MAP].
-# This is documented at http://www.teleport.com/~acpi/acpihtml/topic245.htm
+# This is documented at http://www.acpi.info/, in the ACPI 2.0 specification.
#define SMAP 0x534d4150
@@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ bail820:
meme801:
stc # fix to work around buggy
- xorw %cx,%cx # BIOSes which dont clear/set
+ xorw %cx,%cx # BIOSes which don't clear/set
xorw %dx,%dx # carry on pass/error of
# e801h memory size call
# or merely pass cx,dx though
@@ -733,7 +733,7 @@ flush_instr:
#
# but we yet haven't reloaded the CS register, so the default size
# of the target offset still is 16 bit.
-# However, using an operant prefix (0x66), the CPU will properly
+# However, using an operand prefix (0x66), the CPU will properly
# take our 48 bit far pointer. (INTeL 80386 Programmer's Reference
# Manual, Mixing 16-bit and 32-bit code, page 16-6)
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/boot/tools/build.c b/arch/x86_64/boot/tools/build.c
index c2fa6631317..18b5bac1c42 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/boot/tools/build.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/boot/tools/build.c
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
/*
- * $Id: build.c,v 1.3 2001/06/26 15:14:50 pavel Exp $
- *
* Copyright (C) 1991, 1992 Linus Torvalds
* Copyright (C) 1997 Martin Mares
*/
@@ -8,7 +6,8 @@
/*
* This file builds a disk-image from three different files:
*
- * - bootsect: exactly 512 bytes of 8086 machine code, loads the rest
+ * - bootsect: compatibility mbr which prints an error message if
+ * someone tries to boot the kernel directly.
* - setup: 8086 machine code, sets up system parm
* - system: 80386 code for actual system
*