Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932379AbWJDE30 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 00:29:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932378AbWJDE30 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 00:29:26 -0400 Received: from e36.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.154]:12168 "EHLO e36.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932376AbWJDE3Z (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 00:29:25 -0400 Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 00:28:50 -0400 From: Vivek Goyal To: Andrew Morton 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: <20061004042850.GA27149@in.ibm.com> Reply-To: vgoyal@in.ibm.com References: <20061003170032.GA30036@in.ibm.com> <20061003172511.GL3164@in.ibm.com> <20061003201340.afa7bfce.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061003201340.afa7bfce.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1460 Lines: 39 On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 08:13:40PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > 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. Hi Andrew, Right now I don't have access to my test machine. Tomorrow morning, very first thing I am going to try it out with your config file. This patch just adds and ELF header to bzImage which is not even used by grub. So without this patch you are able to boot the kernel on your laptop? Thanks Vivek - 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/