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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>,
	v12n <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH RFC 4/7] define ELF notes for adding to a boot image
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:58:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070606230922.353532407@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20070606225837.654272428@goop.org

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Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>

---
 include/linux/elf_boot.h |   15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

===================================================================
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/elf_boot.h
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+#ifndef ELF_BOOT_H
+#define ELF_BOOT_H
+
+/* Elf notes to help bootloaders identify what program they are booting.
+ */
+
+/* Standardized Elf image notes for booting... The name for all of these is ELFBoot */
+#define ELF_NOTE_BOOT		ELFBoot
+
+#define EIN_PROGRAM_NAME	1 /* The program in this ELF file */
+#define EIN_PROGRAM_VERSION	2 /* The version of the program in this ELF file */
+#define EIN_PROGRAM_CHECKSUM	3 /* ip style checksum of the memory image. */
+#define EIN_ARGUMENT_STYLE	4 /* String identifying argument passing style */
+
+#endif /* ELF_BOOT_H */

-- 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-06-06 22:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-06 22:58 [PATCH RFC 0/7] proposed updates to boot protocol and paravirt booting Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-06 22:58 ` [PATCH RFC 1/7] update boot spec to 2.07 Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-06 22:58 ` [PATCH RFC 2/7] add WEAK() for creating weak asm labels Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-06 22:58 ` [PATCH RFC 3/7] allow linux/elf.h to be included in assembler Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-06 22:58 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2007-06-06 22:58 ` [PATCH RFC 5/7] i386: clean up bzImage generation Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-06 22:58 ` [PATCH RFC 6/7] i386: make the bzImage payload an ELF file Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-06 23:41   ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-06 23:56     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
     [not found]     ` <466749C8.2010700@goop.org>
2007-06-07  0:08       ` H. Peter Anvin
     [not found]       ` <46674C96.7090104@zytor.com>
2007-06-07  0:20         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
     [not found]         ` <46674F68.6030100@goop.org>
2007-06-07  0:42           ` H. Peter Anvin
     [not found]           ` <4667547B.8080502@zytor.com>
2007-06-07  1:01             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-08  3:49             ` Vivek Goyal
     [not found]             ` <20070608034958.GA10728@in.ibm.com>
2007-06-08  4:01               ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-07  1:47     ` Rob Landley
     [not found]     ` <200706062147.21225.rob@landley.net>
2007-06-07  1:54       ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-07 16:08         ` Rob Landley
     [not found]         ` <200706071208.04777.rob@landley.net>
2007-06-07 16:14           ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-06 22:58 ` [PATCH RFC 7/7] i386: paravirt boot sequence Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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