stub: Fix booting with old kernels

This fixes a regression introduced in e1636807 that removed setting this
value as it seemingly was not used by the kernel and would actively
break above 4G boots. But old kernels (4.18 in particular) will not boot
properly if it is not filled out by us.
The original issue was using the truncated value to then jump into the
kernel entry point, which we do not do anymore. So setting this value
again on newer kernels is fine.

diff --git a/src/boot/efi/linux_x86.c b/src/boot/efi/linux_x86.c
index 83bd7b2c3193f75fb22925c5151382508fa41d8b..c664abd46138556e6fb3ffa4d07bfc788af4407a 100644 (file)
--- a/src/boot/efi/linux_x86.c
+++ b/src/boot/efi/linux_x86.c
@@ -107,6 +107,10 @@ static void linux_efi_handover(EFI_HANDLE image, uintptr_t kernel, BootParams *p
 
         kernel += (params->hdr.setup_sects + 1) * KERNEL_SECTOR_SIZE; /* 32bit entry address. */
 
+        /* Old kernels needs this set, while newer ones seem to ignore this. Note that this gets truncated on
+         * above 4G boots, which is fine as long as we do not use the value to jump to kernel entry. */
+        params->hdr.code32_start = kernel;
+
 #ifdef __x86_64__
         kernel += KERNEL_SECTOR_SIZE; /* 64bit entry address. */
 #endif