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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Virtualization Mailing List <virtualization@lists.osdl.org>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Subject: Re: [patch rfc wip] first cut of ELF bzImage
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 13:22:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <465F2E7A.3000802@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <465F21AF.3080501@zytor.com>

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Without any concept of what those "advanced features" are, we're just
> designing blind.  The only "advanced feature" I can think of that would
> be applicable is relocation, and that one is already taken care of.
>   

Well, I'm not sure what "advanced" really encompasses, but it seems to
me it would also include:

    * relocation
    * booting in protected mode
    * booting with paging enabled, which allows
    * physically discontigious kernels
    * ...?

    J

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-31 20:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-31  7:27 [patch rfc wip] first cut of ELF bzImage Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-31  7:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-31  7:52   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-31  8:12     ` Rusty Russell
2007-05-31 17:52     ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-31 19:07       ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-31 19:27         ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-31 20:22           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2007-05-31 20:17         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-31 20:07       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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