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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Etienne Lorrain <etienne_lorrain@yahoo.fr>,
	vgoyal@in.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Re : [PATCH] Compressed ia32 ELF file generation for loading by Gujin 1/3
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:47:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1abzjw434.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45D07457.9030006@zytor.com> (H. Peter Anvin's message of "Mon, 12 Feb 2007 06:06:15 -0800")

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:

> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>
>> With ELF we get a single file format that works on multiple
>> architectures and for multiple OS-s, with well understood rules.  This
>> allows for a broader audience who can review and maintain the code.
>> In addition to the real possibility of multi-architecture or multi-os
>> bootloaders.
>>
>
> Well understood MAYBE (although the "virtual" versus "physical" address stuff in
> ELF is clearly misspecified in the extreme), but they are clearly not sufficient
> for presenting a well-defined entry condition. So it's not really anywhere near
> as straightforward as you make it sound.

About the entry condition I completely agree.

The fact that the generic tools almost do what you need and then fall short is
also problematic.

However it still appears a reasonable approach to consider.

Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-12 19:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-08 13:10 Etienne Lorrain
2007-02-09  5:59 ` Vivek Goyal
2007-02-09 13:04   ` Etienne Lorrain
2007-02-09 19:42     ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-11 13:23       ` RE : " Etienne Lorrain
2007-02-11 20:49         ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-12 10:42           ` Etienne Lorrain
2007-02-12 12:29             ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-12 13:58               ` Etienne Lorrain
2007-02-12 14:06               ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-02-12 19:47                 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-02-08  9:48 Etienne Lorrain
2007-02-08 11:20 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-08 11:37 ` Vivek Goyal
2007-02-08 12:10   ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-07 14:29 Etienne Lorrain
2007-02-07 17:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-02-06 17:23 Etienne Lorrain
2007-02-06 17:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-02-06 18:12 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-06 13:23 Etienne Lorrain
2007-02-06 13:12 Etienne Lorrain
2007-02-07  6:44 ` Vivek Goyal
2007-02-06 12:49 Etienne Lorrain

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