Re: Extending boot protocol & bzImage for paravirt_ops

Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-27T00:19:37Z

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Pardon me for saying it, but it's hardly a hardship to add support for a
> single additional constant in existing code. I'm starting to think this
> argument is approaching not just the silly, but downright ridiculous.
>

Well, if the existing code is a standard libelf/libbfd, it could be tricky.

> Another option is to have the ELF header at a nonzero offset.
>

Yes, that's exactly what I'm proposing.

J