From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:18:42 -0800 Subject: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add support for LZ4-compressed kernels In-Reply-To: References: <1359179447-31118-1-git-send-email-kyungsik.lee@lge.com> <20130128142510.68092e10.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20130129101549.GP23505@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <51089523.3080804@zytor.com> <510AE6BF.4080303@zytor.com> Message-ID: <510AEDC2.80107@zytor.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 01/31/2013 02:16 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: >> >> Some utterly weird things like the Xen domain builder do that, because >> they have to. That is why we explicitly document that the payload is >> ELF and how to access it in the bzImage spec. > > Are you kidding? > > And what format do they expect? > I think they can be fairly flexible. Obviously gzip is always supported. I don't know the details. > If people are doing weird things with formats we're about to remove then > it's their fault if they didn't make upstream developers aware of it. > And if the reason they didn't tell anyone is because it is too nasty for > public confession then they simply deserve to be broken and come up with > a more sustainable solution. Well, it is too nasty for public confession, but it's called "paravirtualization". -hpa