Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1766551AbXEBVJ7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 17:09:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S2993163AbXEBVJ7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 17:09:59 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:57504 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2993159AbXEBVJ6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 17:09:58 -0400 Message-ID: <4638FE1B.9050901@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 14:09:47 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge 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> <4638FC39.4010101@goop.org> In-Reply-To: <4638FC39.4010101@goop.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 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: 589 Lines: 16 Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > > 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? > Effectively the same thing as changing the magic number. Note that the format for bzImage is pretty rigid, and it would be *highly* undesirable to muck that up. -hpa - 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/