Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2992419AbXEBVCc (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 17:02:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S2993163AbXEBVCc (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 17:02:32 -0400 Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:57997 "EHLO mail.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2992419AbXEBVCb (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 17:02:31 -0400 Message-ID: <4638FC39.4010101@goop.org> Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 14:01:45 -0700 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "H. Peter Anvin" CC: Gerd Hoffmann , "Eric W. Biederman" , Jeff Garzik , patches@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Vivek Goyal , virtualization Subject: Re: [patches] [PATCH] [21/22] x86_64: Extend bzImage protocol for relocatable bzImage References: <20070428758.455116000@suse.de> <20070428175909.1D09D151CA@wotan.suse.de> <46338D72.70402@garzik.org> <4634483E.9030307@goop.org> <46363A68.6080201@goop.org> <46385A8A.6070405@redhat.com> <4638AB55.20408@goop.org> <4638F9BE.8090508@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <4638F9BE.8090508@zytor.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 966 Lines: 26 H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > >> True. But the plan is already to make bzImage an ELF file, so notes >> would seem to be the best option. At worst, it could be ELF notes >> wrapped in some other container, but that's not pretty. >> >> > > It's not going to happen. Too many boot loaders make assumptions about > ELF files which aren't really compatible; the entry conditions for an > ELF from a boot loader are pretty ill-defined, so I think this is a bad > idea. > > At the very least, it shouldn't present the ELF magic number IMNSHO. > Hm, that's unfortunate. How about an ELF file wrapped in some other container, so that we can easily extract a properly formed ELF file? J - 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/