From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vivek Goyal Subject: Re: Extending boot protocol & bzImage for paravirt_ops Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 13:38:17 +0530 Message-ID: <20070531080817.GB8685@in.ibm.com> References: <4656FB8F.4090604@goop.org> <465E05E7.20409@goop.org> Reply-To: vgoyal@in.ibm.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <465E05E7.20409@goop.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Chris Wright , Virtualization Mailing List , "Eric W. Biederman" , "H. Peter Anvin" List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 04:16:55PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > I think we should start there and be prepared to munge the ELF > > magic number if there are problems. Placing ELF notes is going > > to require a little work but mostly it should be a matter of > > copying the from vmlinux. > > > > Do you have a semi-current ELF bzImage patch on hand I can start playing > with? > Following is the link to the patch which was posted last time and made into -mm. But andrew had some old Fedora machine (I think FC2) and some lilo version on that machine which failed to boot, hence this patch was dropped. http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=115989722229057&w=2 Thanks Vivek