Messages in this thread | | | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Subject | Re: Re : [PATCH] Compressed ia32 ELF file generation for loading by Gujin 1/3 | Date | Thu, 08 Feb 2007 05:10:43 -0700 |
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Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> writes:
> Kexec as a boot loader allows to load both ELF vmlinux file or bzImage. > Hence for kdump, a user got the flexibility to either use vmlinux or > bzImage for dump captruing purposes. Hence I am concerned about both. > > If real mode code is linked with vmlinux, then kdump will be broken. > > bzImage is relocatable. If a new kernel image format is introduced > (compressed ELF), then I will prefer it to be a relocatable one > (if possible).
If we do make the real mode code findable from a set of ELF headers instead of a weird program header it should be an ELF note in the note segment that tells us where to find or possibly contains the real mode code.
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