Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758022AbXEIQb7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 12:31:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756188AbXEIQbv (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 12:31:51 -0400 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.236]:47170 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756155AbXEIQbu (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 12:31:50 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=bDlO8PitCAAVwHNGUOg+uFrbPhbd0RKhJgZfYQ0tdYt968rROhvQO7keBb8OlO0VpnwsQSO5LJCRiTQHrB2NDl+V3yChDGo4+SgGaefIpzpVW459UewiRtXnXy+ANri/fZapiZ4EOho8+zIjwzW9vDkwpDyQL8vyjZje/mIIWaE= Message-ID: <86802c440705090931v39cb355cma06ccbc90954baeb@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 09:31:48 -0700 From: yhlu To: "Eric W. Biederman" Subject: Re: [patches] [PATCH] [21/22] x86_64: Extend bzImage protocol for relocatable bzImage Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , "Jeremy Fitzhardinge" , vgoyal@in.ibm.com, "Gerd Hoffmann" , "Jeff Garzik" , patches@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization , "Rusty Russell" , "Andi Kleen" , "Ingo Molnar" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4634483E.9030307@goop.org> <46413087.2020505@zytor.com> <86802c440705082152g49d4d3echf3eb165ce4feb2e9@mail.gmail.com> <46415640.6000600@zytor.com> <4641573C.1000205@zytor.com> <86802c440705082248r5248aa08s8299e03f615b984a@mail.gmail.com> <46416246.9090005@zytor.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 932 Lines: 23 On 5/9/07, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > "H. Peter Anvin" writes: > We can look in /proc/ioports and see what has reserved > the video resources. That should give us a reasonable > estimate of the video adapter. We can do an ioctl to > the console and see how many lines and columns we have. > > Reusing boot_params could be nice but if we have the information > available in other ways digging it out that way is quite possibly > better. Another path: LiuxBIOS+elfboot+payload, and payload is compressed elf (vmlinux+initrd) via lzma. and use kexec to boot final production kernel. We don't need to use boot_params from the first tiny kernel. YH - 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/