Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 05 Feb 2007 22:16:59 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Compressed ia32 ELF file generation for loading by Gujin 1/3 |
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Vivek Goyal wrote: > > I don't know much about Gujin, but advantage here seems to be that it has > capability to load elf files and that's why the attempt to turn kernel binary > into a compressed elf image. Why don't we then simply add an ELF header to > bzImage and Gujin and any ELF loader including Gujin, should be able to load > it? (As Eric had done in one of the implementations in the past?) Why to > create the new infrastructure? >
Well, Gujin wants additional code too.
Putting an ELF header on bzImage broke some bootloaders (GRUB, I believe), so that's not going to happen again. See the relocatable bzImage thread...
-hpa
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