From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1945982AbXD3Qrn (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:47:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1946317AbXD3Qrn (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:47:43 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:57499 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1945982AbXD3Qrm (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:47:42 -0400 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Rusty Russell , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Jeff Garzik , Andi Kleen , patches@x86-64.org, Vivek Goyal , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization , James Bottomley 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> <46361341.1050806@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:47:01 -0600 In-Reply-To: <46361341.1050806@zytor.com> (H. Peter Anvin's message of "Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:03:13 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "H. Peter Anvin" writes: > 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. A dedicated subarchitecture field would make sense. One of the pieces that would be nice is if we could detect other non paravirt subarchitectures. James is there a reasonable way to detect voyager at boot time? So we could potentially have a generic kernel that can also boot on voyager? Eric