From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757224AbYBASJe (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Feb 2008 13:09:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756350AbYBASJ1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Feb 2008 13:09:27 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:59653 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755790AbYBASJ0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Feb 2008 13:09:26 -0500 Message-ID: <47A35F73.7090201@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:05:39 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071115) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: Ian Campbell , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: PATCH/RFC: bzImage payload as compressed ELF file. References: <1201560133.17053.36.camel@cthulhu.hellion.org.uk> <20080201131030.GB1477@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20080201131030.GB1477@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ingo Molnar wrote: > * 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? > Definitely the right thing, let's just get the rough edges taken care of, in particular the CRC32 bit. -hpa