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    SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add support for LZ4-compressed kernels
    On 01/31/2013 02:16 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
    >>
    >> Some utterly weird things like the Xen domain builder do that, because
    >> they have to. That is why we explicitly document that the payload is
    >> ELF and how to access it in the bzImage spec.
    >
    > Are you kidding?
    >
    > And what format do they expect?
    >

    I think they can be fairly flexible. Obviously gzip is always
    supported. I don't know the details.

    > If people are doing weird things with formats we're about to remove then
    > it's their fault if they didn't make upstream developers aware of it.
    > And if the reason they didn't tell anyone is because it is too nasty for
    > public confession then they simply deserve to be broken and come up with
    > a more sustainable solution.

    Well, it is too nasty for public confession, but it's called
    "paravirtualization".

    -hpa




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