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1*d9523678SThomas Gleixner /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */
21da177e4SLinus Torvalds /*
31da177e4SLinus Torvalds  * linux/include/linux/edd.h
41da177e4SLinus Torvalds  *  Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004 Dell Inc.
51da177e4SLinus Torvalds  *  by Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
61da177e4SLinus Torvalds  *
71da177e4SLinus Torvalds  * structures and definitions for the int 13h, ax={41,48}h
81da177e4SLinus Torvalds  * BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services
91da177e4SLinus Torvalds  * This is based on the T13 group document D1572 Revision 0 (August 14 2002)
101da177e4SLinus Torvalds  * available at http://www.t13.org/docs2002/d1572r0.pdf.  It is
111da177e4SLinus Torvalds  * very similar to D1484 Revision 3 http://www.t13.org/docs2002/d1484r3.pdf
121da177e4SLinus Torvalds  *
131da177e4SLinus Torvalds  * In a nutshell, arch/{i386,x86_64}/boot/setup.S populates a scratch
141da177e4SLinus Torvalds  * table in the boot_params that contains a list of BIOS-enumerated
151da177e4SLinus Torvalds  * boot devices.
161da177e4SLinus Torvalds  * In arch/{i386,x86_64}/kernel/setup.c, this information is
171da177e4SLinus Torvalds  * transferred into the edd structure, and in drivers/firmware/edd.c, that
181da177e4SLinus Torvalds  * information is used to identify BIOS boot disk.  The code in setup.S
191da177e4SLinus Torvalds  * is very sensitive to the size of these structures.
201da177e4SLinus Torvalds  */
211da177e4SLinus Torvalds #ifndef _LINUX_EDD_H
221da177e4SLinus Torvalds #define _LINUX_EDD_H
231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 
24607ca46eSDavid Howells #include <uapi/linux/edd.h>
251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 
261da177e4SLinus Torvalds #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
271da177e4SLinus Torvalds extern struct edd edd;
281da177e4SLinus Torvalds #endif				/*!__ASSEMBLY__ */
291da177e4SLinus Torvalds #endif				/* _LINUX_EDD_H */
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