Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 29 Apr 2007 10:20:24 +0530 | From | Vivek Goyal <> | Subject | Re: [patches] [PATCH] [21/22] x86_64: Extend bzImage protocol for relocatable bzImage |
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On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 02:46:18PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes: > > > Eric W. Biederman wrote: > >> > >> The boot protocol change is in 2.6.21 for arch/i386. > >> > >> HPA looked at it a while ago. > >> > >> All it does is set a flag that tells a bootloader. > >> "Hey. I can run when loaded a non-default address, and this is what > >> you have to align me to." > >> > >> All relocation processing happens in the kernel itself. > >> > >> So it is all pretty trivial. > >> > > > > Indeed. We *did* find some problems with Grub with the early versions, > > those were addressed. > > We found some failures that weren't root caused so we went to this > more conservative version. > > RHEL5 is actually shipping the original version of these patches if I > recall correctly. >
Yes, RHEL5 is shipping original version of patches where an where and ELF header has been added to describe bzImage.
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