From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759824AbYBASTV (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Feb 2008 13:19:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753814AbYBASTO (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Feb 2008 13:19:14 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:57072 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753736AbYBASTN (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Feb 2008 13:19:13 -0500 Message-ID: <47A361C1.20500@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:15:29 -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> <47A35F73.7090201@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <47A35F73.7090201@zytor.com> 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 H. Peter Anvin wrote: > 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. > Latest patch looks fine (and is already in the queue), sorry for the noise. -hpa