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Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 20:13:40 -0700 From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org> To: vgoyal@...ibm.com Cc: linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Reloc Kernel List <fastboot@...ts.osdl.org>, ebiederm@...ssion.com, ak@...e.de, horms@...ge.net.au, lace@...kratochvil.net, hpa@...or.com, magnus.damm@...il.com, lwang@...hat.com, dzickus@...hat.com, maneesh@...ibm.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/12] i386 boot: Add an ELF header to bzImage On Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:25:11 -0400 Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...ibm.com> wrote: > Increasingly the cobbled together boot protocol that > is bzImage does not have the flexibility to deal > with booting in new situations. > > Now that we no longer support the bootsector loader > we have 512 bytes at the very start of a bzImage that > we can use for other things. > > Placing an ELF header there allows us to retain > a single binary for all of x86 while at the same > time describing things that bzImage does not allow > us to describe. Seems that the entire kernel effort is an ongoing plot to make my poor little Vaio stop working. This patch turns it into a black-screened rock as soon as it does grub -> linux. Stock-standard FC5 install, config at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/config-sony.txt. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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