From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
Virtualization Mailing List <virtualization@lists.osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Extending boot protocol & bzImage for paravirt_ops
Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 17:14:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4658CD70.2080702@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4658C704.2050405@goop.org>
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>
> I'd really prefer to keep an intact embedded ELF file rather than have a
> semi-ELF file. That way it would be easier to simply load the image and
> point the normal ELF machinery at some offset into the file rather than
> having to have a special handler for "\x7fBZE" or whatever.
>
Pardon me for saying it, but it's hardly a hardship to add support for a
single additional constant in existing code. I'm starting to think this
argument is approaching not just the silly, but downright ridiculous.
Another option is to have the ELF header at a nonzero offset.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-27 0:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-25 15:06 Extending boot protocol & bzImage for paravirt_ops Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-25 16:46 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-25 16:46 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-26 10:18 ` Rusty Russell
2007-05-26 20:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-26 23:47 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-26 23:47 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-27 0:10 ` Rusty Russell
2007-05-27 0:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-27 0:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-26 23:47 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-27 0:14 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-05-27 0:19 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-27 0:19 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-30 23:16 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-31 8:08 ` Vivek Goyal
2007-05-31 8:08 ` Vivek Goyal
2007-06-01 20:55 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-01 21:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-01 21:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-01 21:47 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-01 21:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-01 21:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-02 0:37 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-02 0:37 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-02 0:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-02 0:58 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-02 1:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-02 1:08 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-02 1:17 ` Eric W. Biederman
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