Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Feb 2008 14:10:31 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: PATCH/RFC: bzImage payload as compressed ELF file. |
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* Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> wrote:
> Hi Peter, > > This patch switches the payload of a bzImage file to be in compressed > ELF format. There are several rough edges which need to be addressed > before it could go any further but I'd be interested to hear your > opinion of the general approach before I spend time cleaning it up. > > I'm mainly interested in something along these lines to allow the Xen > bootloader to load a bzImage so that distros don't have to maintain > two kernel packages with the same basic bits in different file > formats, I think it would probably be of use to the kexec and/or > lguest folks too.
this looks quite interesting to me. Peter, what do you think?
Ingo
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