Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:18:42 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add support for LZ4-compressed kernels |
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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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