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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>,
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, 01 Feb 2008 10:15:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47A361C1.20500@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47A35F73.7090201@zytor.com>
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> * 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?
>>
>
> Definitely the right thing, let's just get the rough edges taken care
> of, in particular the CRC32 bit.
>
Latest patch looks fine (and is already in the queue), sorry for the noise.
-hpa
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-01 18:19 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
2008-02-01 18:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-02-01 18:15 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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