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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
	Virtualization Mailing List <virtualization@lists.osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Extending boot protocol & bzImage for paravirt_ops
Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 17:14:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4658CD70.2080702@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4658C704.2050405@goop.org>

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> 
> I'd really prefer to keep an intact embedded ELF file rather than have a
> semi-ELF file.  That way it would be easier to simply load the image and
> point the normal ELF machinery at some offset into the file rather than
> having to have a special handler for "\x7fBZE" or whatever.
> 

Pardon me for saying it, but it's hardly a hardship to add support for a
single additional constant in existing code.  I'm starting to think this
argument is approaching not just the silly, but downright ridiculous.

Another option is to have the ELF header at a nonzero offset.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-27  0:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-25 15:06 Extending boot protocol & bzImage for paravirt_ops Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-25 16:46 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-26 10:18   ` Rusty Russell
2007-05-26 20:42     ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-26 23:47     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-27  0:10       ` Rusty Russell
2007-05-27  0:15         ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-26 23:47   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-27  0:14     ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-05-27  0:19       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-30 23:16   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-31  8:08     ` Vivek Goyal
2007-06-01 20:55   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-01 21:40     ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-01 21:47       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-01 21:57         ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-02  0:37           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-02  0:42             ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-02  0:58               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-02  1:02                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-02  1:08                   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-02  1:17                     ` Eric W. Biederman

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