Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:05:39 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: PATCH/RFC: bzImage payload as compressed ELF file. |
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Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> wrote: > >> Hi Peter, >> >> This patch switches the payload of a bzImage file to be in compressed >> ELF format. There are several rough edges which need to be addressed >> before it could go any further but I'd be interested to hear your >> opinion of the general approach before I spend time cleaning it up. >> >> I'm mainly interested in something along these lines to allow the Xen >> bootloader to load a bzImage so that distros don't have to maintain >> two kernel packages with the same basic bits in different file >> formats, I think it would probably be of use to the kexec and/or >> lguest folks too. > > this looks quite interesting to me. Peter, what do you think? >
Definitely the right thing, let's just get the rough edges taken care of, in particular the CRC32 bit.
-hpa
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