From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754692AbXEAID0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 04:03:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754694AbXEAIDZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 04:03:25 -0400 Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:60317 "EHLO mail.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754692AbXEAIDV (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 04:03:21 -0400 Message-ID: <4636F45A.50003@goop.org> Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 01:03:38 -0700 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rusty Russell CC: "Eric W. Biederman" , "H. Peter Anvin" , Jeff Garzik , Andi Kleen , patches@x86-64.org, Vivek Goyal , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization Subject: Re: [patches] [PATCH] [21/22] x86_64: Extend bzImage protocol for relocatable bzImage References: <20070428758.455116000@suse.de> <20070428175909.1D09D151CA@wotan.suse.de> <46338D72.70402@garzik.org> <4634483E.9030307@goop.org> <1177902195.30071.203.camel@localhost.localdomain> <463572B7.90202@zytor.com> <1177909434.30071.216.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1177990722.28659.39.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4636D200.3010406@goop.org> <1178004868.28659.57.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1178004868.28659.57.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Rusty Russell wrote: > Well there aren't that many instructions between startup_32 and > lguest_init at the moment, but I guess if we end up going through > bzImage decompression it makes more sense... Yes, that's what I was thinking. If we boot compressed kernels in a novel environment, there's going to be plenty of early debugging going on. Fortunately for me, I can just start it up under gdb, so it isn't all that arduous. J