From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754412Ab3LTXVb (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Dec 2013 18:21:31 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:49041 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753252Ab3LTXVa (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Dec 2013 18:21:30 -0500 Message-ID: <52B4D0C6.2000505@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 15:20:38 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Eric W. Biederman" , Vivek Goyal CC: Torsten Duwe , Matthew Garrett , Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org, Peter Jones , Kees Cook Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] kexec: A new system call, kexec_file_load, for in kernel kexec References: <20131121190350.GC17070@kroah.com> <20131121190620.GA25951@srcf.ucam.org> <20131121191305.GK16208@redhat.com> <20131121191907.GA26366@srcf.ucam.org> <20131122185706.GK4046@redhat.com> <87vbzju6ql.fsf@xmission.com> <20131125163920.GC23094@redhat.com> <87fvqj2vxz.fsf@xmission.com> <20131126142759.GA5473@redhat.com> <20131219125439.GA6379@lst.de> <20131220141917.GB27063@redhat.com> <87a9fvqfs4.fsf@xmission.com> In-Reply-To: <87a9fvqfs4.fsf@xmission.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 12/20/2013 03:11 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > In that case the chrome folks would simply have to use an ELF format > kernel and not a bzImage. > This is starting to feel like everything is going in the direction of a massive feature regression. bzImage may be weird (it has definitely grown organically), but the features that have been added to it have generally been for a reason, e.g. kernel relocation and so on. -hpa