Re: PATCH/RFC: bzImage payload as compressed ELF file.

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> This patch switches the payload of a bzImage file to be in compressed 
>> ELF format. There are several rough edges which need to be addressed 
>> before it could go any further but I'd be interested to hear your 
>> opinion of the general approach before I spend time cleaning it up.
>>
>> I'm mainly interested in something along these lines to allow the Xen 
>> bootloader to load a bzImage so that distros don't have to maintain 
>> two kernel packages with the same basic bits in different file 
>> formats, I think it would probably be of use to the kexec and/or 
>> lguest folks too.
> 
> this looks quite interesting to me. Peter, what do you think?
> 

Definitely the right thing, let's just get the rough edges taken care 
of, in particular the CRC32 bit.

	-hpa