Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161068AbWJDDOW (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 23:14:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161070AbWJDDOW (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 23:14:22 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:28878 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161068AbWJDDOU (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 23:14:20 -0400 Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 20:13:40 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: vgoyal@in.ibm.com Cc: linux kernel mailing list , Reloc Kernel List , ebiederm@xmission.com, ak@suse.de, horms@verge.net.au, lace@jankratochvil.net, hpa@zytor.com, magnus.damm@gmail.com, lwang@redhat.com, dzickus@redhat.com, maneesh@in.ibm.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/12] i386 boot: Add an ELF header to bzImage Message-Id: <20061003201340.afa7bfce.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20061003172511.GL3164@in.ibm.com> References: <20061003170032.GA30036@in.ibm.com> <20061003172511.GL3164@in.ibm.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1045 Lines: 25 On Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:25:11 -0400 Vivek Goyal wrote: > Increasingly the cobbled together boot protocol that > is bzImage does not have the flexibility to deal > with booting in new situations. > > Now that we no longer support the bootsector loader > we have 512 bytes at the very start of a bzImage that > we can use for other things. > > Placing an ELF header there allows us to retain > a single binary for all of x86 while at the same > time describing things that bzImage does not allow > us to describe. Seems that the entire kernel effort is an ongoing plot to make my poor little Vaio stop working. This patch turns it into a black-screened rock as soon as it does grub -> linux. Stock-standard FC5 install, config at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/config-sony.txt. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/