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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: PATCH/RFC: bzImage payload as compressed ELF file.
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 14:10:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080201131030.GB1477@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1201560133.17053.36.camel@cthulhu.hellion.org.uk>


* Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> wrote:

> Hi Peter,
> 
> This patch switches the payload of a bzImage file to be in compressed 
> ELF format. There are several rough edges which need to be addressed 
> before it could go any further but I'd be interested to hear your 
> opinion of the general approach before I spend time cleaning it up.
> 
> I'm mainly interested in something along these lines to allow the Xen 
> bootloader to load a bzImage so that distros don't have to maintain 
> two kernel packages with the same basic bits in different file 
> formats, I think it would probably be of use to the kexec and/or 
> lguest folks too.

this looks quite interesting to me. Peter, what do you think?

	Ingo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-01 13:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-28 22:42 Ian Campbell
2008-01-28 22:54 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-29  9:34   ` Ian Campbell
2008-01-29 17:54     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-29 18:05       ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-29 18:31         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-29 18:34           ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-29 20:38             ` Ian Campbell
2008-01-29 21:50               ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-29 21:55                 ` Ian Campbell
2008-01-29 22:09                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-28 23:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-29  9:31   ` Ian Campbell
2008-02-01 13:10 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-02-01 18:05   ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-02-01 18:15     ` H. Peter Anvin

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