From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Subject: Re: another RFC patch: bzImage with ELF payload Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 12:42:15 -0700 Message-ID: <46607697.7060402@goop.org> References: <46605E3D.3030009@goop.org> <46605ED4.6040202@goop.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: 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: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Virtualization Mailing List , Vivek Goyal , "H. Peter Anvin" List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Jeremy Fitzhardinge writes: > > >> Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: >> >>> BTW, this won't apply as-is; I have some mucking-around patches to try >>> and get the linux/elf*.h headers into a bit more order, but that's not >>> ready yet. >>> >>> >> BTW2: I've been basically ignoring zImage. Do we need to support it at >> all? Has anyone used it in the last 10 years? >> > > zImage is uninteresting. I think HPA explicitly dropped support a few > years ago so we can't even build it. > Hm, its still there, and he put explicit support for it into the new bootcode rewrite. Doesn't boot for me though. > That said a bImage (non-compressed bzImage). Might actually be > interesting. > That's pretty easy in my current plan. You just glue vmlinux into the image rather than compressor+compressed data. J