From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: vgoyal@in.ibm.com
Cc: Etienne Lorrain <etienne_lorrain@yahoo.fr>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Compressed ia32 ELF file generation for loading by Gujin 1/3
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 22:16:59 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45C81D5B.3050408@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070206052514.GA15613@in.ibm.com>
Vivek Goyal wrote:
>
> I don't know much about Gujin, but advantage here seems to be that it has
> capability to load elf files and that's why the attempt to turn kernel binary
> into a compressed elf image. Why don't we then simply add an ELF header to
> bzImage and Gujin and any ELF loader including Gujin, should be able to load
> it? (As Eric had done in one of the implementations in the past?) Why to
> create the new infrastructure?
>
Well, Gujin wants additional code too.
Putting an ELF header on bzImage broke some bootloaders (GRUB, I
believe), so that's not going to happen again. See the relocatable
bzImage thread...
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-06 6:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-05 23:56 [PATCH] Compressed ia32 ELF file generation for loading by Gujin 1/3 Etienne Lorrain
2007-02-06 0:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-02-06 5:25 ` Vivek Goyal
2007-02-06 6:16 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-02-06 6:33 ` Vivek Goyal
2007-02-06 6:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-02-06 6:51 ` Vivek Goyal
2007-02-06 7:24 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-06 15:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
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