x86-specific Documentation¶
- 1. The Linux/x86 Boot Protocol
- 1.1. Memory Layout
- 1.2. The Real-Mode Kernel Header
- 1.3. Details of Header Fields
- 1.4. The kernel_info
- 1.5. Details of the kernel_info Fields
- 1.6. The Image Checksum
- 1.7. The Kernel Command Line
- 1.8. Memory Layout of The Real-Mode Code
- 1.9. Sample Boot Configuartion
- 1.10. Loading The Rest of The Kernel
- 1.11. Special Command Line Options
- 1.12. Running the Kernel
- 1.13. Advanced Boot Loader Hooks
- 1.14. 32-bit Boot Protocol
- 1.15. 64-bit Boot Protocol
- 1.16. EFI Handover Protocol (deprecated)
- 2. DeviceTree Booting
- 3. x86 Feature Flags
- 4. x86 Topology
- 5. Kernel level exception handling
- 6. Kernel Stacks
- 7. Kernel Entries
- 8. Early Printk
- 9. ORC unwinder
- 10. Zero Page
- 11. The TLB
- 12. MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) control
- 13. PAT (Page Attribute Table)
- 14. Hardware-Feedback Interface for scheduling on Intel Hardware
- 15. x86 IOMMU Support
- 16. Intel(R) TXT Overview
- 17. AMD Memory Encryption
- 18. AMD HSMP interface
- 19. Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX)
- 20. Page Table Isolation (PTI)
- 21. Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) mitigation
- 22. The Linux Microcode Loader
- 23. User Interface for Resource Control feature
- 24. TSX Async Abort (TAA) mitigation
- 25. Bus lock detection and handling
- 26. USB Legacy support
- 27. i386 Support
- 28. x86_64 Support
- 28.1. AMD64 Specific Boot Options
- 28.2. General note on [U]EFI x86_64 support
- 28.3. Memory Management
- 28.4. 5-level paging
- 28.5. Fake NUMA For CPUSets
- 28.6. Firmware support for CPU hotplug under Linux/x86-64
- 28.7. Configurable sysfs parameters for the x86-64 machine check code
- 28.8. Using FS and GS segments in user space applications
- 29. In-Field Scan
- 30. Shared Virtual Addressing (SVA) with ENQCMD
- 31. Software Guard eXtensions (SGX)
- 32. Feature status on x86 architecture
- 33. x86-specific ELF Auxiliary Vectors
- 34. Using XSTATE features in user space applications