Re: PATCH/RFC: bzImage payload as compressed ELF file.

[Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>]

On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 15:20 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Ian Campbell wrote:
> > 
> > What would be the preferred way of allowing bootloaders/domain builders
> > to find the compressed payload? Tacking the offset from the end onto the
> > end as I have done for the moment seems pretty skanky...
> > 
> 
> As Jeremy already mentioned, putting a pointer to the compressed ELF 
> image in the bzImage header (and bumping the version number to 2.08) is 
> the right way to go about it.  The compression format (for now, always 
> gzip) can then be identified in the usual way via compression format 
> magic number.
> 
> As I've previously expressed, I'm much happier with this approach than 
> having the compressor portion itself be an ELF image, so I'm happy to 
> see this patch.  However, I think it needs to ride a cycle in -mm, so 
> although I didn't see any problems from a cursory look I might not get a 
> chance to do a detailed review until the merge window is over.

That's good enough for me -- I shall press on...

Cheers,
Ian.

-- 
Ian Campbell

Pascal:
	A programming language named after a man who would turn over
	in his grave if he knew about it.
		-- Datamation, January 15, 1984