From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423640AbXD3QE5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:04:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423634AbXD3QE5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:04:57 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:37752 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423619AbXD3QEQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:04:16 -0400 Message-ID: <46361341.1050806@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:03:13 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Eric W. Biederman" CC: Rusty Russell , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Jeff Garzik , Andi Kleen , patches@x86-64.org, Vivek Goyal , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization Subject: Re: [patches] [PATCH] [21/22] x86_64: Extend bzImage protocol for relocatable bzImage References: <20070428758.455116000@suse.de> <20070428175909.1D09D151CA@wotan.suse.de> <46338D72.70402@garzik.org> <4634483E.9030307@goop.org> <1177902195.30071.203.camel@localhost.localdomain> <463572B7.90202@zytor.com> <1177909434.30071.216.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > Sure. > > Peter do we want to use the bootloader byte and assign lguest it's own > bootloader type or do we want to add another field specific to > paravirtualized environments? > The bootloader byte is already a bit too overused; I'm a little scared that we're going to run out of boot loader IDs as it is. We probably should add another field, and while we're at it maybe we should add a boot loader extension field. -hpa