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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: vgoyal@in.ibm.com
Cc: Etienne Lorrain <etienne_lorrain@yahoo.fr>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Re : [PATCH] Compressed ia32 ELF file generation for loading by Gujin 1/3
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 05:10:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1bqk4alz0.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070208113706.GB14039@in.ibm.com> (Vivek Goyal's message of "Thu, 8 Feb 2007 17:07:06 +0530")

Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> writes:

> Kexec as a boot loader allows to load both ELF vmlinux file or bzImage.
> Hence for kdump, a user got the flexibility to either use vmlinux or 
> bzImage for dump captruing purposes. Hence I am concerned about both. 
>
> If real mode code is linked with vmlinux, then kdump will be broken.
>
> bzImage is relocatable. If a new kernel image format is introduced
> (compressed ELF), then I will prefer it to be a relocatable one
> (if possible).

If we do make the real mode code findable from a set of ELF headers
instead of a weird program header it should be an ELF note in the note
segment that tells us where to find or possibly contains the real mode
code.

Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-08 12:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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 [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-02-11 20:49 RE : " 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
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
2007-02-07 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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