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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>,
	hyojun.im@lge.com, raphael.andy.lee@gmail.com,
	linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, gunho.lee@lge.com,
	namhyung.kim@lge.com, x86@kernel.org, minchan.kim@lge.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
	Nitin Gupta <nitingupta910@gmail.com>,
	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Joe Millenbach <jmillenbach@gmail.com>,
	chan.jeong@lge.com, Kyungsik Lee <kyungsik.lee@lge.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com>,
	CE Linux Developers List <celinux-dev@lists.celinuxforum.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
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



  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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