Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Feb 2007 12:03:21 +0530 | From | Vivek Goyal <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Compressed ia32 ELF file generation for loading by Gujin 1/3 |
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On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 10:16:59PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > 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... >
That time, grub was working fine but lilo had broken on one of Andrew's machine. I could not reproduce the problem on my setup and had no clue what was the issue. Hence got rid of ELF header from bzImage which was non-essential stuff for relocatable kernel. But that issue should be fixable.
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