Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:15:29 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: PATCH/RFC: bzImage payload as compressed ELF file. |
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H. Peter Anvin wrote: > 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. >
Latest patch looks fine (and is already in the queue), sorry for the noise.
-hpa
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