From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add support for LZ4-compressed kernels
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:18:42 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <510AEDC2.80107@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1301311700470.6300@xanadu.home>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-31 22:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-26 5:50 [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add support for LZ4-compressed kernels Kyungsik Lee
2013-01-26 5:50 ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] decompressors: add lz4 decompressor module Kyungsik Lee
2013-01-26 5:50 ` [RFC PATCH 2/4] lib: add support for LZ4-compressed kernels Kyungsik Lee
2013-01-26 5:50 ` [RFC PATCH 3/4] arm: " Kyungsik Lee
2013-01-26 5:50 ` [RFC PATCH 4/4] x86: " Kyungsik Lee
2013-01-28 22:25 ` [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add " Andrew Morton
2013-01-29 1:16 ` kyungsik.lee
2013-01-29 4:29 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-01-29 6:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-30 10:23 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2013-02-04 2:02 ` Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer
2013-02-04 10:50 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-02-05 11:39 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2013-01-29 7:26 ` Richard Cochran
2013-01-29 10:15 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-01-29 11:43 ` Egon Alter
2013-01-29 12:15 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-02-01 8:15 ` kyungsik.lee
2013-01-30 3:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-30 18:33 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-01-31 21:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-31 22:16 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-01-31 22:18 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2013-02-01 2:28 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-01 6:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-29 22:55 ` David Sterba
2013-02-01 7:13 ` kyungsik.lee
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