From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
patches@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [patches] [PATCH] [21/22] x86_64: Extend bzImage protocol for relocatable bzImage
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:28:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4636D017.5060108@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1177995014.28659.54.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Rusty Russell wrote:
>
> BTW, wrt. a new "platform type" field, should it go something like this?
>
> -0235/3 N/A pad2 Unused
> +0235/1 2.07+ platform_type Runtime platform (see below)
> +0236/2 N/A pad2 Unused
> ...
> + platform_type:
> + For kernels which can boot on multiple platforms. Currently
> + 0 == native (normal), 1 == lguest (paravirtualized).
>
Well, yes, but we need to think about if there is more things that
should be added. There *definitely* should be space for a platform data
pointer, to start out with. I would also like to see a platform data
field, as well as a bootloader extension field (we're going to have that
problem soon enough.)
-hpa
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2007-04-29 15:11 ` [patches] [PATCH] [21/22] x86_64: Extend bzImage protocol for relocatable bzImage Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-30 3:03 ` Rusty Russell
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2007-04-30 4:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-30 5:03 ` Rusty Russell
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2007-04-30 5:25 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-30 16:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
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2007-04-30 16:47 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-30 15:34 ` Eric W. Biederman
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2007-05-01 3:38 ` Rusty Russell
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2007-05-01 3:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-01 3:59 ` Rusty Russell
2007-05-01 4:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
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2007-05-01 8:03 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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