From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764020AbYBANK4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Feb 2008 08:10:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755810AbYBANKt (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Feb 2008 08:10:49 -0500 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:59766 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754663AbYBANKs (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Feb 2008 08:10:48 -0500 Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 14:10:31 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Ian Campbell Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: PATCH/RFC: bzImage payload as compressed ELF file. Message-ID: <20080201131030.GB1477@elte.hu> References: <1201560133.17053.36.camel@cthulhu.hellion.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1201560133.17053.36.camel@cthulhu.hellion.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Ian Campbell 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