Introduce a possibility of not specifying load offset

diff --git a/doc/multiboot.texi b/doc/multiboot.texi
index 2aac5684e7a452d6c3274f82d827f2d9134e08b1..4b92918e52161bf8b591d0fac47f7a3875387227 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/multiboot.texi
+++ b/doc/multiboot.texi
@@ -487,6 +487,8 @@ offset in the OS image file at which to start loading is defined by the
 offset at which the header was found, minus (header_addr -
 load_addr). load_addr must be less than or equal to header_addr.
 
+Special value -1 means that the file must be loaded from its beginning.
+
 @item load_end_addr
 Contains the physical address of the end of the data
 segment. (load_end_addr - load_addr) specifies how much data to load.